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Sum's avatar

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

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Andrew Smith's avatar

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.

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hexheadtn's avatar

Three Dog Night

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Andrew Smith's avatar

One and three, all in one song!

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vince newton's avatar

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. 🥰

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Andrew Smith's avatar

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

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Ken Barber's avatar

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.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

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.

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hexheadtn's avatar

cosmological constant

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Andrew Smith's avatar

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

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hexheadtn's avatar

I also like sqrt(2)

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I figured you for an infinity man ♾️

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Andrew Smith's avatar

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

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Daniel Nest's avatar

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!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Number nine.

Number nine.

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Brynja Knapp's avatar

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

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Daniel Nest's avatar

*Insert "Mind Blown" gif*

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Brynja Knapp's avatar

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

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Physics supersymmetry, or something else?

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Brynja Knapp's avatar

Both, all, yes.

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