56 for me is associated with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and for the 56ers, emigrants from Hungary after the revolution didn’t turn out well. This is probably fairly esoteric for most folks, though.
11 - herbs and spices in KFC secret recipe (not because I love KFC, but Kinky Friedman seemed to mention it a lot in his books as a euphemism for something else)
- There is a famous story about the number theorist G.H. Hardy visiting Ramanujan in the hospital and telling him that he had just come in a taxi with a very dull number, 1729. Then Ramanujan is quoted as having said, “No, Hardy, that is the smallest positive number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways.” The two ways are 1000 + 729 = 1728 + 1. If that quote is accurate (which I doubt), then Ramanujan erred and the correct number is 91. And 91 is interesting for a different reason. It is the smallest non-prime that most people think is prime.
If Ramanujan said “positive cubes” he was correct. But 91 = 3^3 + 4^3 = 6^3 + (-5)^3 = 7*13.
Hari, my head is still spinning.
8675309: makes me think of Jenny!
Wikipedia:
***Jenny, I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny, don’t change your number
Eight six seven five three oh nine***
4 Horseman of the Apocalypse
7 Deadly Sins
13 is the age of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah.
86 when you cancel an item on a menu or kick somebody out of your bar. (“You’re 86’d, punk. The doorman will help you find your way out.”)
714 is the Dragnet badge. Or Babe Ruth’s home runs. (Also my birthday!)
You could start a whole new thread on the significance of certain numbers in sports.
How many bottles of beer on the wall are there?
76 to me relates to US independence (Philadelphia 76ers, Spirit of 76)
1000 - when you’re doing perfectly – or, sarcastically, terribly (“Batting a thousand”)
'68 Camaro
'65 Mustang
'57 Chevy
Here’s a few more
80- TRS 80 Computer
82- BLU 82 bomb, aka Daisy Cutter
87- Delaware 87ers
88-White supremacist slogan
93- Threshold for an A grade
95- Interstate 95
100- Cents in a dollar
107- Years between Cubs world series wins
110-Number of cornets that accompanied the 76 trombones
151- Overproof rum
154- Representatives in Maine State House of Representatives
180- Max score in a round of darts
212- Boiling point of water
301- Target score in darts
360- Degrees in a circle
438- Congressional districts in the United States
Why, 99 of course!
Right?
755
Take one down
Pass it around
Now how many bottles of beer on the wall?
There’s still 99. There’s always 99.
I’ll drink to that.
- Many people in the West have seen that number (top left of the photo) or rather seen photoswith the number in the photo but probably don’t pay attention.
It’s a fashion store for high schoolish girls in Shibuya and one of the iconic scenes.
Let’s not forget 14 k of g in a fpd.
If we get to count the number of representatives in the various states, foreign countries, etc. or the numbers on sports jerseys, we’ll get lots of numbers that are meaningless to many.
And there are 435 representatives. There are 538 electoral votes because DC gets 3, but it has no representative.