Poll: What Type of Number Would You Want to Be? (I think I got it to work this time.)

If you could be a number, what kind of number would you want to be? Some of the categories might be overlapping, for example a rational number could also be a real number. So choose carefully.

  • Prime Number
  • Rational Number
  • Complex Number
  • Hyperreal Number
  • Natural Number
  • Real Number
  • Integer
  • Surreal Number
  • Fibonacci Number
  • Transcendental Number
  • Irrational Number
  • Even Number
  • Odd Number
  • Negative Number
  • Positive Number
  • Imaginary Number
  • indeterminate form (not really a number)
  • something else (please specify)
  • What the hell is wrong with you, Ynnad?

0 voters

Integer, certainly. Probably 8.

I’ve enjoyed being #3.

I would choose 00.

Wikipedia says:

[quote] A leading zero is any 0 digit that comes before the first nonzero digit in a number string in positional notation.[1] For example, James Bond’s famous identifier, 007, has two leading zeros.[2][quote]

Since the 0 is leading a 0, I’ll call that second zero a non-negative integer.

So I’ll say a non-negative (and non-positive?) integer with a leading zero.

To repeat myself from the closed thread:

Poisson’s ratio, 'cause it’s dimensionless. Yes, I know my intentions may seem a bit fishy.

No input other than to say I love your avatar!

I selected the next-to-last option because (I can’t stand the expression “second-to-last” and) why would anyone NOT want to be a perfect number?

Obviously the number 42.

I originally (well, in my second attempt anyway) had Perfect Number as an option but the system only let me keep 20 options.

Even. I was thinking the other night about how addition and multiplication tend toward even sums. I wasn’t thinking much more than that, but I was noticing.

Well there is an appropriate technical term for that.

For me it’s even products of single digit numbers (excluding those that end with 0). For example: 8, 12, 42, 56, 72.

I’d like to be a quaternion. Maybe 1 + 2i +3j + 4k.

The kind you do on someone’s head.

Prime. I’d prefer not to be divided.

Inscrutable numbers, like ‘fourch’ or ‘twarve’.

[Friendly number](Friendly number - Wikipedia

Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9…

This is nine! NINE! This is nine! Nine! This is ten! Ten! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six!

Eighteen! This is now eighteen! Take cover when the siren sounds! This is four! Four! Five! This is five! Ignore the siren! Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room! Eight! This is eight!

Six! This is six! This is goddam fu**ing SIX!

I am not a number; I AM A FREE MAN!