Numbers with common associations

[boffking]

37- Human body temp in celsius
41- George Bush Sr. was 41st President
43- George Bush Jr. was 43rd President
46- Total number of human chromosomes
47- Mitt Romney’s controversial remark

[Channing_Idaho_Banks]

All prime numbers are interesting.

[cochrane]

@Guinastasia

I immediately thought of 99, for Wayne Gretzky

99 Luftballons.

[Bullitt]

3…

… is a magic number

Yes it is, it’s a magic number.

[StarvingButStrong]

Wow, that group was done fast!

Sorry, I haven’t got time to really think about these, so not many accounted for. Have at 'em:

51 Area 51
52 weeks in a year
53 Herbie in the Love Bug (suggested earlier by someone)
54 Car 54 Where are you?
55 speed limit (during fuel shortage)
56 ?
57 Heinz varieties
58 ?
59 Feeling groovy
60 Seconds/minute or Minutes/Hour
61 ?
62 earliest age a healthy retiree can get Social Security (I think?)
63 ?
64 squares on a chess board
65 common retirement age
66 Route 66
67 ?
68 means the kitchen is out of whatever
69 sex position
70 Muslim martyrs get 70 virgins in heaven
71 ?
72 Um, there’s something about 72 in calculating bank interest, I think?
73 ?
74 ?
75 ?

Also, since it came to me:

76 trombones in the big parade.

[cochrane]

@StarvingButStrong

Wow, that group was done fast!

Sorry, I haven’t got time to really think about these, so not many accounted for. Have at 'em:

68 means the kitchen is out of whatever

70 Muslim martyrs get 70 virgins in heaven

86 means the kitchen is out of an item.

Muslim martyrs get 72 virgins.

[boffking]

74 miles per hour is the minimum wind speed for a storm to be a hurricane.

[cochrane]

I thought of a couple of more numbers that definitely are part of popular culture.

Maxwell Smart’s Control number is 86. His partner is Agent 99.

[Bullitt]

@StarvingButStrong

72 Um, there’s something about 72 in calculating bank interest, I think?

For investments, the ‘rule of 72’ (or 70) is used to determine…

How long will it take to double your money?

Let’s say this is in years, if we’re compounding annually, so if you get 1%, it will take you 70 years to double your money. At 25%, it will only take you a little over three years to double your money.

[movingfinger]

NASCAR fans will immediately recognize 43 as the numberr always associated with “The King” Richard Petty.

[jtur88]

What self-declaration of a person’s age is least likely to be suspected of being a lie or exaggeration? The opposite of 18 and 39, the most likely to be presumed lies.

[dtilque]

@cochrane

86 means the kitchen is out of an item.

And by extension, it came to mean to get rid of a customer. That is, for that customer, they’re out of everything so they may as well leave. The meaning then got extended to eveything. Eighty-sixing something was to toss it out.

@cochrane

Maxwell Smart’s Control number is 86.

This was not a coincidence.

[Bullitt]

666

[StarvingButStrong]

@cochrane

86 means the kitchen is out of an item.

Muslim martyrs get 72 virgins.

Dang. (Can you be dyslexic with numbers?)

And I’d always heard it as seventy, but Google says you’re right about the virgins.

So 72 is covered, but 68 is now back to “?”

And we’ll take advantage of Bullit’s post to slide Rule of 70 into the gap the virgins used to cover.

But no other posts, so 56 is starting to look good.

[What_Exit]

@StarvingButStrong

Dang. (Can you be dyslexic with numbers?)

And I’d always heard it as seventy, but Google says you’re right about the virgins.

So 72 is covered, but 68 is now back to “?”

And we’ll take advantage of Bullit’s post to slide Rule of 70 into the gap the virgins used to cover.

But no other posts, so 56 is starting to look good.

56 it LT’s number in football. More importantly the length of Joe DiMaggio’s consecutive game hitting streak which is well known to baseball fans and older seniors.

[Darren_Garrison]

@Peter_Morris

It’s a song that was a pretty big hit in 1985. Although maybe not so much in America.

No, it was played eleventy-seven bazillion times in the US.

[cochrane]

@StarvingButStrong

Dang. (Can you be dyslexic with numbers?)

And I’d always heard it as seventy, but Google says you’re right about the virgins.

So 72 is covered, but 68 is now back to “?”

And we’ll take advantage of Bullit’s post to slide Rule of 70 into the gap the virgins used to cover.

But no other posts, so 56 is starting to look good.

I remembered the number of virgins because of this joke about Osama being greeted in the afterlife by a few score of citizens of the Old Dominion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/4xj55t/after_osama_bin_laden_dies_he_finds_himself_in/

[Peter_Morris]

47 is the Star Trek number.

[dtilque]

@chacoguy

Well, there’s 420.

@StarvingButStrong

Are you suggesting it has a meaning, or doesn’t?

Dopers, the other kind of dopers, know about 420

[boffking]

56 Kb/S- Max speed of a dial-up connection
71- World’s fastest plane, the SR-71