­xkcd thread

Let me guess: the two largest?

Well, 58008 you have to look down, not up.

Though I more often saw it as 5318008.

Is seven-segment numerical display even a thing anymore, with full-res graphics cheap and ubiquitous these days?

You get them on less expensive stuff. They are on my alarm clock and microwave, for example. Even if the full-res graphics are just as cheap, it takes some engineering to redesign something that has 7-segments. So they won’t do that until the 7-segs are no longer made.

I believe it was Mel Brooks who said the two funniest numbers were seventeen and thirty-two.

Nah I learned long ago. Eyes up!

Yup the two bigger ones. (Hangs head in shame.)

Mel Brooks was a writer on the Dick van Dyke Show.

I expect most of us in this thread already know this, but we have a dedicated thread on the “6-7” phenomenon: