12 is the most Christmassy number.
:smack: Knew I should have checked that before posting . . .
Wesley: why is 237 an undesirable room #?
4 is the bassist number.
11 is the loudest number.
… only by using CIRCULAR logic.
Yes. And in general, please explain yourselves, everyone.
88 is the fattest number.
11 is the leggiest number.
See British (and US for all I know) bingo calling.
It’s my understanding that in the American system, introductory courses are numbered “101”. This has morphed into meaning anything that’s of a beginner’s or introductory nature. It’s starting to leach into British English as well. I’ve heard people use this in expressions such as:
What, you didn’t salt your gherkins overnight first? That’s pickling 101 that is.
So; 101 is the simplest number.
Mangetout, I’m pretty sure your OP is due to the recent TV ad for a deodorant.
In which case I nominate “1” as the most annoying number for two reasons:
a) (heh) Because that song’s refrain is now my latest earworm, and the worst kind, because it’s a song I don’t especially like
- Because that line annoys me. “1 is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do”. In this situation you’re not “doing” a number are you? “Doing a number” means to mistreat, surely? Aren’t you “being” a number? “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever be” dammit
It’s the room number the murders took place in from The Shining.
5318008 is the surprisingest number to still be missing from this list.
Wouldn’t that be the bounciest number (upside down)?
42 is the most quoted number.
Not any more it isn’t :).
Not yet, it isn’t 
(at least in this thread - I’m well aware of the reference. Adams once described it as the “funniest 2 digit number” - IIRC he went on to say the funniest 3 digit number is 359. But this was probably a classic bit of whimsy, as in another interview he explained that he wanted the answer to the meaning of life to be a quite ordinary number, not something like “three and five eighths”, or a prime number, or even an odd number, as he felt this would put a weak joke in the middle of a strong joke, and detract from the strong joke). Apologies for the slight digression.
420 is my favorite of the numbers.
ETA: explanation either unnecessary or not worth it.
It is - and that earworm was the reason I started this thread - my first train of thought was whether the suffix ~est could be applied to non-adjectives; i.e: what is the numberyest number?
What is the numberyest number?
2 is the numberiest number. 0 and 1 are just the fundamental building blocks of the system, put in directly via axioms. 2 is the first number constructed using the successor operation, which is used to construct all the other numbers. If you’ve just got 0 and 1, you could be dealing with almost anything, but once you’ve got 2, you know you’re dealing with numbers.
I think that supports the notion that 2 is the lowest numbery number, but first is not necessarily most.
phi is the least number-y number. Seriously, greek letters don’t get to be numbers. :mad:
The square root of negative one is the number you’re least likely to see used in someone’s street address.