How many people "own" a particular number?

[Thorgalaeg]

It's also the number of the anti-christ.

7 = God

So perfection = 777

Double perfection because 3 means perfection and wholeness in the bible too (father, son and holy spirit and such).

 

[Lexicus]

Hillary Clinton: 227

 

[Perfection]

Double perfection because 3 means perfection and wholeness in the bible too (father, son and holy spirit and such).

The Bible knows jack squat about Perfection

 

[RobAnybody]

Oh, that reminds me: How about Austin 3:16? (that's probably too old for most people today, but we have an older crowd here).

EDIT: found it [NSFW]: https://tenor.com/view/stone-cold-steve-austin-wwe-austin316-gif-24786980

DOUBLE-EDIT: It's an odd example of where someone appropriated a previous famous number to their own advantage.

 

[Caesar of Bread]

Oh, that reminds me: How about Austin 3:16? (that's probably too old for most people today, but we have an older crowd here).

EDIT: found it [NSFW]: https://tenor.com/view/stone-cold-steve-austin-wwe-austin316-gif-24786980

DOUBLE-EDIT: It's an odd example of where someone appropriated a previous famous number to their own advantage.

John 3:16???

 

[Kyriakos]

Pi^2/6, insofar as it is famous in the way discussed in the thread (and probably it is not), is Euler's.
The actual proof was only completed a century later. It is a similar case to some other famous results, which you can assume are right, because you can calculate them up to large numbers, but the proof isn't formal.
There is also 1/137, though that one is associated with far more famous people than the one it tends to be named after (eg Dirac). Again, however, it's not part of popular culture.

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

The Bible knows jack squat about Perfection

Haha!

Well that might be true but God knows Perfection and I'm quite sure he loves him.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There are 8 billion people most of whom know little or nothing about the world outside of their region or nation. We are among the educated elite and that is the group such discussions have some playful meaning. I'd be surprised if a billion people know anything about ancient Greece or could name a picture of the Parthenon. The World Cup is likely much better known among masses. What was Pele's number?

All I know about Pele is that way back when, he was an often-used solution to a crossword puzzle clue.

As for ancient Greece, the daft curriculum that is in the process of being foisted on the students of my province included an assignment for Grade 2 kids - who are SEVEN YEARS OLD - to draw a map of ancient Greece and label the Greek cities and the nearby bodies of water.

Even I can't remember how to spell some of that half the time, and I took Roman and Greek history in college!

Does that really count as a number, though? It has units, so in different unit systems it has a different numerical value.

In my opinion, a constant should be dimensionless to really be a number. Like the Avogadro number.

I kid you not, the first time one of my teachers uttered the phrase "Avogadro number", I heard it as "avocado number". And I've never even tried an avocado.

If you want famous units, though, any Original Trilogy Star Wars fan knows that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs - even if most of them snicker at George Lucas' ignorance of types of measurements used in astronomy.

Everyone knows (or should) 1492, yup.

It's got a lot of negative associations nowadays, though. And every time someone trots that date out to me as "evidence" of some kind of superior feat of European exploration, I just inform them that the Vikings got here first - 500 years earlier.

That said, I love the soundtrack Vangelis composed for the movie. It's possible to love the music but loathe the main character.

 

[emzie]

William the Conqueror and 1066
Trump and 45
Jenny and 867-5309

 

[Gori the Grey]

Trump and 45

That is funny, now that I think about it, that more than any other president, he gets referred to by his number.

 

[Caesar of Bread]

1 and nothing. Why? Because it's the lonliest number. Wait... that makes it related to Three Dog Night (or Harry Nielson)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

1 and nothing. Why? Because it's the lonliest number. Wait... that makes it related to Three Dog Night (or Harry Nielson)

Hm. I remember a song by Three Dog Night being used as an example of poetry, in my Grade 7 literature class. "Black and White" is one of the songs I decided to learn on the organ. Nobody in the family was familiar with it but me, but that didn't matter.

Out of curiosity I just looked that song up on YT, and am impressed. That group performed it in videos shot 30 years apart, and they lost none of their singing ability in the intervening years.

 

[Snowygerry]

10 used to be worn by the best player in the team, so it is to be expected that many great players had that number.
Once again, though, imo it's pointless to argue that, on a global scale, any number is associated primarily with a sports-person.

46 For Valentino Rossi ?

There is only one number 46! On Saturday at the Gran Premio d'Italia Oakley, MotoGP™ Legend Valentino Rossi returned to the emblematic Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello as the number 46 was retired from use in the MotoGP™ class.

Number 46 retired from MotoGP™ at Mugello

The 'Doctor' was in the house for a special ceremony at the Gran Premio d'Italia Oakley

www.motogp.com

 

[Fippy]

I think there was a time when most peoples (outside the US prolly ) would say: 10? Maradona.
I didn't care about football but still heard his name at least 1x per week.

 

[Kyriakos]

To me, people like Maradona show why ultimately it is pointless to be a sports person. Summarized in a quote about the difference between a very intelligent chess player, and an equally intelligent mathematician: the latter can actually know how various things work in the world, while the former has knowledge that isn't easy to translate to other fields.
There are other issues. Sports people very easily become avatars of their fans, without the fans aspiring (apart from very few cases) to be actually like them. But the success in sports is entirely transient, and idolizing those people seems to prolong personal inertia.
Ultimately, this is due to how visual sports appreciation is. While most people wouldn't even know the first thing about Maradona's actual technique, everyone can see he was an amazing player. Not at all the same with more directly cerebral models (there'd be no point in fawning over a math proof you don't understand; you could cheer about a tech breakthrough based on it, but then you tend to focus on the end result and so can't idolize those who made it possible. How many think of Einstein (let alone actual equations) when using GPS tracking? ).

 

[Fippy]

To me, people like Maradona show why ultimately it is pointless to be a sports person.

Dunno if i understand that part..many players (especially in areas like South America) would have faced a life in relative poverty.
If they wouldn't have had that natural footy gift, dedication & lots of time to play with others, supporting parents etc.

 

[Kyriakos]

Dunno if i understand that part..many players (especially in areas like South America) would have faced a life in relative poverty.
If they wouldn't have had that natural footy gift, dedication & lots of time to play with others, supporting parents etc.

Yes, you are right. I meant "pointless" in regards to others, not to themselves ^^ I do think they mostly have a counter-productive effect on their fans (apart from the very few who will come to follow in their steps).

 

[Gori the Grey]

There is only one number 46!

With this much of your claim I can agree, even though I had never previously heard of Valentino Rossi.

 

[Snowygerry]

The trick is to pick a number that's not often used I guess, every footbalteam has a number "10" they're never going to "retire" that are they

It's more common in US basketball iirc.

 

[Kyriakos]

Are there/have there been any german sportsmen with the number 88?