Favorite Numbers
By theprogamer
@theprogamer (10534)
United States
August 25, 2007 11:41am CST
What are your favorite numbers. Do you have any at all? If you do share them. If not, lucky numbers can count toward this discussion to. You may also share numbers you encounter very frequently, or numbers you have a curiosity/propensity toward.
Some of mine are
Negative 3 - Anytime its something online that completely sucks, I give it a rating of negative 3 out of 10.
3/4 -seems like that pops up in cooking and some minor auto maintenance from time to time.
7 -birth number or part of it
29 -24 adjusted for inflation (a personal favorite)
47 -42 adjusted for inflation
101 -several instances of it
234 -I've seen a lot of peak numbers list containing this many items
255 -plenty of computer references
256 -several instances of it, especially in computers/online
717 -made up lucky number
777 -birth number
1024 -computation/binary thresholds
4356 -prefix to acre
40000 -approx circumference of Earth both directions
70000 -don't know why but its a favorite
4.5 billion -age of Earth
And sometimes you can find out a lot about someone through lucky or favorite numbers. I just want to see what everyone says.
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@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
25 Aug 07
I tried to look for my favorite number; 8. But it was not listed under your description. And this is my reference that stick on my computer desk.
NUMEROLOGY KEY WORDS -
Meaning of the Numbers in a Nutshell
It is essential to understand that the root numbers used in numerology are, in their essence, all equal, one to the other. Each of the numbers has its positive traits and likewise each number has its negative potential. Here are brief listings of traits for each number:
1 Positive Traits: Initiator of action, a pioneering spirit, inventive ideas, strong leadership skills, independent, drives to attain, individualistic style, executive abilities, extraordinary will and determination, courageous.
1 Negative Traits: Overly assertive or aggressive, dominating, impulsiveness, egotistic, boastfulness, willfulness.
2 Positive Traits: Cooperation, adaptability, considerate of others, sensitive to the needs of others, partnering, an arbiter or mediator, modest, sincere, spiritually influenced, a diplomat.
2 Negative Traits: Shyness, timidity, fear, self-consciousness, drown in detail, depression.
3 Positive Traits: Self-expressive in many ways, verbalization, inspiration and keen imagination, artistic gifts, accurate impressions and insights, never-ending optimism, happy and fun-loving, enjoys life fully.
3 Negative Traits: Scattered energies, exaggeration, unfinished projects, lack of direction, moodiness, self-centeredness.
4 Positive Traits: Strong sense of order and values, struggle against limits, steady growth, highly practical, scientific mind, attention to detail, foundation for achievement, a genius for organization, fine management skills.
4 Negative Traits: Lack of imagination, caught up in detail, stubborn fixed opinions, argumentative, slow to act, too serious, confused.
5 Positive Traits: Expansiveness, new and visionary ideas, quick thinking, versatile and ever-changing, action oriented, curious and exploring, promoting, resourceful in using freedom constructively.
5 Negative Traits: Restless, discontent, edgy temperament and speech, dissatisfaction, too many hasty decisions, impatience, lacking in application.
6 Positive Traits: A strong sense of responsibility, artistic, a nurturing disposition, community oriented, balanced, sympathy for others, a humanitarian, unselfishness, love of home and domestic affairs, freely renders service to others.
6 Negative Traits: Self-righteousness, obstinacy, stubborn, dominates family and friends, meddling, egotistical and susceptible to flattery, outspoken.
7 Positive Traits: Skilled at analysis and research, an intelligent seeker of knowledge, scientific and inventive, studious, meditating, charming personality and demeanor, love of solitude and peace, a perfectionist.
7 Negative Traits: Hidden motives and suspicions, overly reserved, arguments enjoined with silence or sarcasm, isolated, inflexible positions, overly upset by distractions.
8 Positive Traits: Executive character and abilities, political skills, expert handling of power and authority, working for a cause, achieving recognition, exercising sound judgment, decisive and commanding.
8. Negative Traits: Workaholic, overly ambitious, lacking humanitarian instincts, mismanaging money, repressing subordinates, impatient with people, stressed, materialistic.
9 Positive Traits: Heartily friendly and congenial, a hail-fellow, humanitarian instincts, a giving nature, selflessness, obligations, creative expression, readily influenced to do good works, artistic and writing talents.
9 Negative Traits: Self-adulation, scattered interests, possessiveness, moodiness, careless with finances, wanting peer attention.
11 See number 2. Spirituality is emphasized more, but in essence, the 2 traits, positive and negative apply.
22 See number 4. Exceptional projects possible, but in essence, the 4 traits, positive and negative apply.
And thank you very much for your interesting subject of discussion.
The Little Me,
Michael.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
25 Aug 07
Hah, and I thought I was crazy for knowing the meaning behind flowers and colors.
Thanks for sharing this Michael!
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@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
25 Aug 07
Thanks for revisiting to my poor texts, theprogamer.
Wishing you good luck & good look.
Bye for now.
The Little Me,
Michael.
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@Thirteenth (291)
• Malaysia
25 Aug 07
I like the numbers pi and thirteen.
Pi sounds like pie, and everyone loves pie.
Fun stuff happen on Friday the thirteenth on DragonFable, and Tatari from Melty Blood is number thirteen. That's two good reasons for me to like the number thirteen. =]
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Hah, funny. But wouldn't pi be too infinite for a favorite number.
Or maybe that's also part of why you like it (Besides the name association ;p)
Good post.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
27 Aug 07
I think I might have seen it. Either that or a predecessor from way back. It was nuts to look at O_o
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@babyreyn (934)
• Philippines
26 Aug 07
Wow, you have lot of numbers with meaning. hahaha. Rare! Well for me, I love 7 it is a perfect number in the Bible. As well as 40 (40 days and 40 Nights) I also love 5, for we are five in the family, my father, my mom and my two eldest brother:D
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@babyreyn (934)
• Philippines
28 Aug 07
Hello... Thanks for response. Since we are five in the family, my father, my mom, and my two big brother that makes us five in a happy family. I also love 3 for we are three children of our parents. This year I love 24 for I am celebrating my 24th birthday on the 24th of September Godwilling... hehehe
@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Hah, a few have told me I've got too many. I didn't even list all of them, just the ones that I thought were great beyond great in my opinion. I might list others as a response to my own thread.
I also like how your favorite number is based on your family. I know plenty of people who do that, especially when they have a family of their own to love and care for. I see 3,4,5 quite a bit in that case.
Thank you kindly for reading and responding Reyn.
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@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
25 Aug 07
my favorite numbers is 6 ,8, 13.
6, it means you can do anything easily, and no difficulties on it.
8, it means you can earn too much money in your life.
so it is expensive in my country to get numbers with the two numbers. such as telephone numbers:88888888. it costs over 10,000. car number:8888 it costs more than the phone number.
13, it has special meaning for me, and i was born in 13th,Dec.But in some countries, it is a bad number. what about it in your country?
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
25 Aug 07
Thanks for sharing that. 13 is the bakers dozen and some assign it to bad luck. I don't (in fact 13 saved a small party I went to. An extra guest came and we were able to get another discount allowing more the party more options).
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@GaiaFireLynx (208)
• United States
23 Sep 07
A really good friend of mine was born on October 13th. Her thirteenth birth day was on Friday the thirteenth.
@herrbaggs (1308)
• United States
29 Aug 07
I did not have a favorite number until I grew old. Then I realised my most favorite number is 2. Yes number 2 is by far my most favorite number, I just wish it came around more often. Of course if it did it would no longer be my favorite number, it would most likely revert to number one.
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@herrbaggs (1308)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Number 2 is the most important number in anybodys life when it fails to show up, life will spiral straight down hill. You will understand this the fist time it leaves you HANGING.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Almost binary ;p
I don't razz people on their numbers I just wanted to see some. I've been told I'm nuts for having some in the 1000s and trillions.
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@surajpkn (582)
• India
26 Aug 07
I have this number 8 which is so lucky and important for me. I love this number as it was the date when i proposed to my love and she accepted it. I like the number 6 because it never did any harm to me, wherever i saw 6. But i hate 7. 2007 has been very unlucky for me!!
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Nice story Sura. Sorry about 07 being too mean to ya. I blame the people who had free reign on 7-7-07. They musta sucked up the luck.
Here's wishing you better for the rest of the year friend.
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@cjsmom (1423)
• United States
30 Sep 07
Wow..! You have quite an array of numbers there. The only number I've considered special to me throughout my life has been, '21'...It's part of my birthdate and I just like it; there's probably an underlying mental aspect there as well where I'd truly love to be 21 again.
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Oh, yes, I have always had a very strong preference for the number nine. Later I learned that it is associated with dragons and I've always liked them, too, although I've not met an actual one...at least I don't think so.
You like an awful lot of numbers! I bet you enjoy reading about Cydonia and the Mars anomalies.
@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Yea I'm a space, time, planet freak ;p
Sick freak but eh, gotta keep the brain entertained somehow. Thanks for stopping by Dran.
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@abbamoney (66)
• Vietnam
26 Aug 07
favorite numbers? there's a bunch.
1 1st place
3 just like the number
4 a frequently mentioned number in asian mysteries
7 7 days of a week, 7 lotuses when buddha was born, ...
8 sounds like wealthy in chinese
....
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Yea and there are a lot of fables, folklore and religion based on 7. I find it pretty interesting too. Didn't know about the 8 in chinese though. Thanks for that Abba.
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@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
25 Aug 07
Hello there. My favourite number would be 7. I believe it's a perfect number. =D
The number that I often get acquainted with is number 4. My Birth Date is 4.. My position in school when I was in junior school is 4 too.. etc etc..
The number i dread the most is 6 because I believe it's a Satan's number. Personally I am fine with the number 13 even though many people considered it unlucky.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
25 Aug 07
Ah thats pretty interesting, being cool with 13 but not being cool with 6. Usually everyone that hates 6 doesn't like 13 either. First post and there is already a rare gem in the discussion. Thanks for sharing Pooh.
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@Malamute (50)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Cool question! I love numbers, I can remember every jersey number I ever wore playing sports and that's like 25 different seasons! My favorite numbers are 3, 8 and 33. Double numbers are special for some reason, double letters also have some signifigance. Wonder what that says about me? :-)
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Probably that evenness or matches put you at ease, or you just plain like them. :)
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@medstudents4 (826)
• India
26 Aug 07
hi theprogamer,i really liked your lucky number list..well i consider 1,3,5,and 10 as my lucky numbers with 5 on top of the list..i don't remember how did i calculated it to be my lucky number..may be they are according to my birth date or my date of birth collectively i mean including the birth year also..i don't know about them very much as how lucky they are and when they prove to be lucky..but i just like them since my childhood..so you can say they are more like my favorite numbers now..:-)i don't have that much knowledge about everything like this but yours seems very good..
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Well thanks, I think yours are pretty nice too. Its okay not to have that much knowledge about it, this is supposed to be a fun thread.
I need it, trust me :)
Thanks for your time and your response medstudents.
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@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
4 Sep 07
Ah numbers.
Sometimes I consider them a curse.
I don't like numbers increasing by 5, and so I'm very specific with the amount of one thing that I have, and the volume number I use on my tv/appliances =P
Firstly, my boyfriend's favourite number is actually: several; the universal number, and it is often his alias on websites =]
Myself:
7, I don't know what it is about this number, but it seems to always pop up for me, and became even more significant when one day, my boyfriend said "I Love You", and straight away, I retorted with, "Nah, I love you more, like + 7!".
He gave me the strangest look =D
8, is that favourite number between myself and my best friend (aka the bucketkids)
13, probably my most consistent favourite number, and also my father's. I always had to have the 13 jersey when I played soccer, as I believed it made me play better =P
At age 13 was also when I went through a lot of my harshest trials in life, so it was a turning point in my life.
24, the age of one of my past boyfriends, that I would always try to relate to things in my life.
31, 13 backwards, and the street number of the first home that my dad owned.
I have other numbers that I 'enjoy', and I'm slightly OCD.
Not only can I only have the volume on any of the numbers stated above, I also can't have something like... 5 meatballs on my plate, I have to split them up into say.. 13 segments and then eat a certain amount at once so that I always have a likable number =P
Another great discussion, Pro!
Mal.
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@artemis432 (7474)
• Abernathy, Texas
10 Sep 07
Oh my bubba is there a group thing for this - or would you have to be careful about the number of people in a group therapy setting? j/k.
I have trouble with numbers, even though there is magic in them. Numbers transcent cultures, languages - could even be considered language in itself. Numbers, and pattern is considered how we might communicate with aliens we might encounter when we begin space trials. Patterns help us learn, play and compose music. There is so much in science I am blocked from understanding because it involves numbers.
I can memorize poetry and passages from Shakespeare, I'll memorize the way sunlight hits a persons eyes and turn them into cat's eyes or the way someone might say my name, a verbal caress sending shivers up my spine. Numbers though they get all tangled up inside. It takes me months to memorize my own phone number and its promptly forgotten when I get a new one - I do remember the first number I memorized as a child though - 735.5696.
Yet, I dream of numbers - alot - sometimes strings of numbers. And this one psychic I went to for free - student psychic at the Berkley Psychic Institute, said that around my aura she saw NUMBERS - of course she also said my aura was neat and orderly a thing I have trouble believing for sure. There were a lot specific things she said that were right on - then she said this and then went all sci-fi from there!
My favourite number is 7. Don't know why I just like it, it feels nice. When you were a kid did you ever try to imagine how numbers relate to each other - which numbers got along and which ones didn't - okay I was a wierd child. I thought about this and existance and such as early as seven.
@GaiaFireLynx (208)
• United States
23 Sep 07
I am really into numerology so one of my favorite numbers is my birth path or life path number which is the # 7. I will have to see if I can think of some more.
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@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
28 Oct 07
My favorite number is four (4), for no reasons why I don’t know. I even do crazy stuff relating number 4 like every time I get to decide when to do this and do that, I sometimes count 1 to 4 first. When I have to base something with a number, it should be number 4. hehe…
@copperkitten (3473)
• United States
30 Aug 07
The number 12 is our number. My son was born at 2:12 am, on 4-12, weighed 6.12, 2+4+6=12, he picks things with 12 on it, my hunny went to a race and it was the 12th race, we went to the tractor pulls and I had seat 12...Theres more I just cant think of them right now. So I guess 12 is our number!! I also get alot of occurances of double numbers. Wierd!!
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
31 Aug 07
Yea Copper, I've been noticing some 12 too. Could be anything, but then again my numbers started out as just random numbers, associations or factoids. Maybe I should heed 12.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
7 Nov 07
My favorite numbers, because they were my favorite ages, are 5 & 13.
5, because I wasn't in school yet, was big enough to dress myself, get my own drinks of water, brush my hair & STILL have my folks take care of me - I did start school before I turned 6, but most of 5 was really good!
13 because that's the year I watched The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the year Star Trek started! It also wasn't nearly as rotten as the year before or the year after.
I turned 13 in 8th grade.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
The 9 is almost obvious Prasanna :)
Thanks for stopping by and sharing, its appreciated
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@NothigIsImpossible (13)
• China
26 Aug 07
i did know that 4 is unfavorite in China and 13 in West...
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
26 Aug 07
I remember hearing that about 4 in that area. 13 I already knew.
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@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
30 Oct 07
The number that i mostly encountered, has been a part of my life eversince, and that seemed to be lucky to me is number 17. I dunno if it is by accident, coincidence, or really meant to happen. So if I am being asks about my favorite number, i always says it is number 17.