6, 13, 113, 169, 355
And all of the other constants which are TNC.
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What are TNC?
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The Notable Constants?
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I have to say I am a big fan of 37. Prime number with two prime digits, and it’s a factor of 111, 222 etc. Wonderful little man
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these turn up a lot in my code.
if a random chance of 1 in 3 succeeds:
and
if a random chance of 2 in 3 succeeds:
I guess three is a bit of a cliche, but I like what it’s doing for me.
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Of course it’s the most common ‘random’ number too!
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They read like dead Internet r/askreddit posts. Just fishing for responses.
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Hey, anyone know any good reads for interesting/unique facts about every integer from 1 to some decently large by humans have an intuitive understanding of that size number?
On a related note, here are some of my favorite facts about 2:
An infinite power tower of the square root of 2 equals 2.
The n-nacci sequences approach the powers of two and the n-nacci constants approach 2 as n goes to infinity. And in case you didn’t know, the n-nacci sequences are similar to the Fibonacci sequence, but you add the previous n terms to get the next term, and the n-nacci constant is the limit of the ratio between consecutive n-nacci numbers.
As n goes to infinity, the smallest diagonal of a regular n-gon with unit edges approaches a length of 2.
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When I spent a lot of time on a phase contrast microscope counting asbestos fibers: TNC - too numerous to count. 
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It also equals 4, as you can check. Therefore 2 = 4. Bonus marks for anyone that can save arithmetic from inconsistency. 
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I always liked The Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers as a kid.
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Number Gossip is relevant to this discussion.
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Hey, that Number Gossip site is fun 
(if you are a NNN notorious number nerd (I am )).
Edit: That site has also a math blog.
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…be careful with that abbreviation. Well, be aware of what it stands for now (No Nut November, or abstinence from sex/masturbation). It’s not necessarily a bad term but it’s also NSFW.
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1, 4, 10, 42, 69, 451, 1138.
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At the risk of taking this off off-topic, I’ve just added an extract from Twisty Little Passages to 69,105 - IFWiki :
Zork has a purely numerical joke that may be the most elaborate in all interactive fiction-perhaps even in all computing. In the Clearing a command to count leaves brings the wry response “There are 69,105 leaves here.” This reply presupposes a superhuman (and in fact computer-like) adventurer, able to count a tremendous number of objects in the thin slice of time represented by a move. Perhaps this prodigious ability to count is in keeping with the adventurer’s autistic nature, as manifested in the emotional understatement and the fixation on objects that Aarseth (1997, 115-117) has pointed out. Whatever the case, the absurd, impossibly accurate count is funny, as is the “364.4 Smoots and one ear” measurement first marked on the Harvard Bridge in October 1958 by MIT students who had just finished measuring the bridge with Oliver Reed Smoot’s supine body. The same sexual innuendo is insisted upon twice in the digits “69,105”-the “69” to the left of the comma is repeated to the right of the comma, since decimal 69 is octal 105, and (as is not true in general) hexadecimal 69 is also decimal 105. This number appears again in Infocom works The Witness by Stu Galley (the gun receipt is number 69105) and in Leather Goddesses of Phobos by Steven Meretzky (which has another pile of leaves). In works from the late 1990s, Adam Cadre’s I-0 features 69,105 pieces of laundry in the trunk of car; Admiral Jota’s in-joke Pass the Banana has a file size of 69,105 bytes. The number also is mentioned in Infocom’s newsletter The New Zork Times and in the instructions to Douglas Adams’s Bureaucracy, another Infocom work. But in case one’s appetite for numeric allusion to mutual oral sex is not satisfied at the “Clearing,” there is more in Zork along similar lines. The description of the “Studio” mentions that the “walls and floors are splattered with paints of 69 different colors.”
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@Hidnook Oh, sorry and thank you for the info. I surely hadn’t that in mind. So I won’t use this special abbreviation in the future.
I hope using abbreviations with potentially bad meanings are not taboo per se (talking about the general case).
Can you elaborate why? I can understand most of them but what might be the reason for 451 and 1138? Edit: There’s Fahrenheit 451.
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1138 may be because of THX, if I can venture a guess.
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