I like e for several reasons:
[ol]
[li]it’s the second most well-known famous irrational number right after pi but it gets little respect from the general public ;[/li][li]people are always trying to break records with finding the digits of pi or memorizing pi, but you never hear about this happening with e; when someone tells you “I’ve memorized 100 digits of pi” you can counter with “well I’ve memorized 20 digits of e, can you beat that?” No one ever can.[/li][li]e is irrational but starts like this 2.718281828 so at first glance it looks like it might actually be a rational number; it’s sneakier that way, with pi it’s immediately obvious to the newbie that it probably won’t repeat.[/li][li]e was “discovered” by Jacob Bernoulli who’s from Switzerland like me. And it was given its name “e” by another Swiss mathematician, Euler. in our math class in high school our teacher called it “Euler’s number”[/li][/ol]
I could go on and on, but I hope that I’ve convinced a few of you to add “e” to your list of favourites.
I used to hate 8 because it meant that 7 was over.
And also I had such trouble learning to write 8. I would always do the 3 and then do a backwards 3 and it looked so ugly trying to match them up to make the damn 8. And then I tried the two circles method and it still looked kinda ugly, even if it was fun (it’s like building a snowman!) and then I got to a different school when i was younger, and just watched people easily do 8’s, and figured out finally what I was doing wrong…
You had to LOOP the damn thing! :smack: Man, I felt so stupid, and even then, my 8’s would always lean a little bit to the left or right. I hated it. Even now though, if I ever draw a good 8, I feel a little proud of myself. Or I’ll sometimes just do the “build a snowman method” cuz it makes me smile.
My favorite is nine. I’d like to pick eight but it’s just too perfectly round and symmetrical and divisible and I only deserve something round and divisible with a little imperfection in the bottom left-hand corner. Plus, nine is a slate blue and eight is orange-red, and I like the blueness better.
I like odd numbers better than even ones. My favorite numbers are 7, 9, and 11–7 and 9 because I like their colors (purple and black, respectively) and 11 because it’s my “lucky” number (there are many 11’s associated with my life including birth date (11/11) and my parent’s anniversary (1/11).
I am a color-grapheme synesthete; I don’t really associate “personalities” with numbers per se, but I do tend to perceive even numbers as “softer” than odd numbers (maybe because many even numbers are more rounded).
1 is dark gray. 2 is yellow. 3 is reddish. 4 is light blue. 5 is brownish. 6 is green–and so on.
With double digits it becomes more complicated, but 11 is still dark gray, 12 is gray and yellow, 13 is orange–sort of. The colors sort of break down the longer the numerals get. Does that happen with anyone else?