3, 7 and 9.

These numbers are significant to everyone, but my question is how?

44 responses total.

Because, without them, you'd be in a peck of trouble.

In the pagan religion, they're magickal numbers.

Are there any nonmagical numbers?

I have never heard that 46109 is magical.

The rule of threes, the circle of seven, the nine worlds... mayhap?

What about the sign of the four, and the eightfold paths? 
(46109? WOW! Be careful of *that* one during full moons!)

Crowley did an entire book of nothing but magickal attributions
of numbers.  I should ask my Crowleyite friends, there may well
be some significance to 46109...

Of course, we all know the significance of 24601.  >8)

realistically the only true numbers are 0-9.

I submit that 0, 1  are truer.

46109?  Wouldn't that be someplace in Indiana?  What is the Zip Code of Hell?

666 Nameless Street
Dis, Baator 666

The only true number is 1.  0 is an artifact.

Okay.
Are we dealing with reality or binary here?

You cannot know you have a 1 unless a 0 is possible, as 1, or "is"
is only a contrast to 0, or "is not". 

bjorn, this item started out unconcerned with either reality or binary ;->.

True, true...

Nonsense. 1 is, it simply is, and that is all there is to it.

Prima facie, huh?

Moo.

In the future, great war, millions die.  But, great hope of
peace.  The One will be a great leader.  The One will show us
how to fight, and how to win.

The Zero, no, never heard of The Zero.  Math not Zathrus'
specialty.

The war of numbers?  This is getting out of hand.

Hey, I just think the numbers 3, 7, and 9 are really cool numbers.  What
more do they have to be, than just their own unique selves?

The toys of the gods, that's what.

        Does your perception of a number depend on the notation
        used to express it? Take "three" for example. In various
        notational systems:

            decimal:   3
            binary:    11
            Roman:     III

        Do you experience it as the same number in those
        differing representations?

And let's not forget:

        octal           3
        hexadecimal     3
        base 19         3
        base 46109      3

binary is the only notation that, um, screws me up.
<bjorn washes his mouth out with soap>

But consider:
 
       2 base 2:     10
       3 base 3:     10
      17 base 17:    10
    9383 base 9383:  10

   (and other examples)

So, all numbers are really the same, and none can be more mysterious than
the rest.

        Ah, but what about 1 base 1? Or 0 base 0?

Never mind that, what about 1 base 0?

   1 base 1:    10

that's 1*1^1 + 0*1^0

   0 base 0:    10

that's 1*0^1 + 0*0^0

So what's the problem?

Never mind that, what about 1 base 0?

Hva?  Is this item degenerating?

That's debatable. It is certainly metamorphosing.

<runs around the table, slams his shoe on it a couple of times while yelling
"nyet," and then he remembers that he is not part of the UN>
Are there any motions on the floor?  Seeing none, I move for a five minute
cactus.  is there a second?

All the cactuses I've had experience with lasted a lot longer than
five minutes.

<laughs>

Re 34 - You know perfectly well that the plural of cactus is
cacked eye.

1 base 0 eh?  That's hardly relevant to the original discussion, but here it
is:
       10000000000....0000000000
        `---------v------------'
                log 1
                   0

Enigma digresses often.

When you think about it, all other numbers can be made using 0, 1, and 2.
You cannot make 1 from 0, and you cannot make 2 from 1--1+1=2, true, but you
are adding two numbers together then, and you don't have two yet.

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