22 Comments

Love Three Dog Night! Do you know the story of the name?

Expand full comment

I know the story of how "three dog night" came to be a saying- you wanted to sleep with more dogs when it was colder, right? But I'm not sure about why the band picked that phrase.

Expand full comment

Three Dog Night

Expand full comment

One and three, all in one song!

Expand full comment

One (tee hee) of my favorite t-shirts is a tribute to one (tee hee) of my favorite school house rock cartoons… My Hero Zero. 🥰

Expand full comment

Zero really is the ultimate hero (or villain!).

Expand full comment

I've read that the early Church forbade using, or teaching, the number zero. I presume that this is the reason that Dionysius Exiguus (aka "Dennis the Short") omitted a Year Zero when he devised the "A.D." numbering system of years.

Expand full comment

That's possible, but it's also very possible that the idea of zero simply hadn't reached Dennis's mind by that time. Zero is a really recent "number" for us humans.

Expand full comment

cosmological constant

Expand full comment

Is that your favorite number? If we're doing it this way, mine is probably c!

Expand full comment

I also like sqrt(2)

Expand full comment

I figured you for an infinity man ♾️

Expand full comment

Infinity is infinitely more interesting that every number except one and zero, I think.

Expand full comment

I'm just outraged that you snubbed nine like that.

Nine is what happens when you flip an otherwise perfectly ordinary six.

Nine is 3 squared, or, even better, three threes. That's like, tripple the awesomeness of three.

And it's the highest possible single-digit number.

You did nine dirty, man.

You take that back, right now!

Expand full comment

Number nine.

Number nine.

Expand full comment

As you said, however, 9 IS 6 (which is actually 3).

Expand full comment

*Insert "Mind Blown" gif*

Expand full comment

22 is my favorite number. Super symmetry. That is all.

Expand full comment

Physics supersymmetry, or something else?

Expand full comment

Both, all, yes.

Expand full comment