# Poll: favorite numbers **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130 "2009-09-07T02:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/1 "2009-09-07T02:03:35Z")
Do you have a favorite number? I’ve found that synesthetes usually have arbitrary favorites: “I like 4. I don’t know why. I just do”. Nonsynesthetes almost always answer in one of three ways: “No, I’ve never thought about”, “Yes, because it’s a significant date\*”, or “7”. My favorite number is 9 (followed by 7 and 3). I personally cannot fathom how someone could have no preferences whatsoever- I see all letters and numbers as being so different. But that’s just the way my brain’s wired. \*Or significant anything, really. Dates, addresses, SS#- whatever it is, they picked the numbers because of their associations. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/2 "2009-09-07T02:10:16Z")
42, then pi and e. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/3 "2009-09-07T02:15:17Z")
Forgot to add: say why you like that number. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/4 "2009-09-07T02:43:51Z")
1. When I was little, I liked how it sounded. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/5 "2009-09-07T02:46:08Z")
42, as it’s The Answer 666 'cause it pisses off the fundies 45, it’s the caliber of my favorite handgun ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/6 "2009-09-07T03:31:50Z")
7, but for totally weird personal reasons that have nothing to do with the number’s cultural mysticism 713, because it combines 7 and 13, another number that has a personal interestingness to me, and seems very powerful 3, because it’s nice 3469, because it’s really nice, it’s just such a pleasant number - almost _refreshing_ I’m not a synesthete though…I don’t think. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/7 "2009-09-07T04:02:17Z")
I’m partial to [Bill and Ted](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUoumBUQjc)’s favorite number. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/8 "2009-09-07T06:16:42Z")
My favorite is 9. I also like 73 and 78. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/9 "2009-09-07T07:00:09Z")
24, because my birthday is on the 24th. It’s also a neat number - you can divide it a whole lot of ways. It’s very friendly and cooperative. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/10 "2009-09-07T07:27:53Z")
Any power of 2. ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/11 "2009-09-07T22:04:04Z")
I liked 7 before I knew about it having any cultural significance. It has the same personality as the letter D. I think of them both as handsome. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/12 "2009-09-07T22:04:44Z")
6, it’s a perfect number. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/13 "2009-09-07T22:07:19Z")
1. I don’t know why. I just do. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/14 "2009-09-07T22:13:57Z")
8 and 29. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/15 "2009-09-07T22:18:05Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > 1. > > When I was little, I liked how it sounded. Same here. Although I am considering changing it to -56 3/4 ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/16 "2009-09-07T22:20:20Z")
1. Dunno why. It’s like it has a certain appealing symmetry, or something. Not the written numeral, I mean; the numeric quantity itself. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/17 "2009-09-07T23:59:17Z")
I like 7 and 10. 4 and 21 as well, but only if they’re together. 7 just looks nice, and 10 seems stronger than all of the single-digit numbers. 4 and 21 because something very nice happened to me on April 21st, and now the numbers have a new connotation in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/18 "2009-09-08T00:48:39Z")
Pi, for some irrational reason. Also 00. It’s not really a number AFAIK but they put it on the roulette wheel anyway. I chose it for the back of my softball jersey because then when I ran out on the field, people could point at it and say “00!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/19 "2009-09-08T00:51:46Z")
I’d say ‘Double-naught!’ ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130/20 "2009-09-08T01:14:27Z")
7 and 42 have been my favorite numbers since I knew what numbers were and before I knew anything else about those numbers. 7 because of the word (consonant, e, consonant, e, consonant) and its color (which I can’t explain, but some of you will probably know what I mean). 42 because the first is twice the second and because it’s pretty. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-favorite-numbers/509130.md?page=2)