24
No question, 24 is an amazing number.
It’s a product of 1,2,3,4,6,8 & 12.
Each integer is double its position: 0x2, 1x2, 2x2 = 0,2,4.
And at 24 years old, you’re completely clear of the adolescent period, and still have plenty of time before things all go downhill.
No question, 24 is hot.
73
While we do not bow to the opinions of others, we must admit that Sheldon Cooper, of “The Big Bang Theory” made a compelling argument worthy of citing:
The best number is 73. Why? 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3… and in binary 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001.
-S. Cooper
π
It’s a symbol but it’s also a number!?
It does lose a great deal of nerd cred from the fact that basically everyone knows about it, but it makes up for that shortcoming by having incredible potential for puns and ample commercial opportunities.
Truly, “pi” has given us far more than a reliable way to calculate the area and circumference of circles. (Among an incredible list of other uses that you might have trouble believing.)
For this reason, it even has its own day!
3.141
The minimal number of places of π you need to know to regain even a speck of the nerd cred this number once, presumably, endowed.
e
Or, in its properly stylized form: e.
It, too, is both a number and a symbol(!), but the normies haven’t discovered it yet. So, just between us, if someone brings up “Euler’s number,” you can just nod knowingly, and hope no one actually asks you what it is or what it’s for.
(For the record, apparently it’s ~2.71828, and has to do with logarithms, but if anyone drills you for that level of information, you can just say that, personally, you prefer “Euler’s constant” (γ), and hopefully they’ll back off.)
γ
(In the event someone asks you about Euler’s number, you prefer this. If they know about Euler’s constant… Run.)
8
An even number, the product of 2 and 4 (which, as you’ll recall, form “24,” whose greatness is already established), and perfectly symmetrical both vertically and horizontally.
Basically, the number eight is a number of perfect balance.
0
Not only does zero possess the same perfect symmetry of eight, but it is a deceptively complex concept– absence, emptiness, neither positive nor negative– that it actually has its own history across multiple cultures as they “discovered” it.
Plus, without zero, we wouldn’t have a rhyme relating to the aspiration of becoming a hero.
80085
A highly sophisticated number that many a schoolchild has learned the importance of through hours of rigorous studies and procrastination.
Of course, the significance has to do with the fact that it possess two eights and two zeros. Incredible numbers on their own, but when paired up and formed into a palindromic pattern, it becomes all the more incredible. Then, just to offset the perfection– because perfection should never be achieved, but rather strived for— a solitary prime number, five, is attached to the end, so chosen because it is perfectly splits 0 and 10.
