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Answer Questions never been answered before (probably because they have never been asked)

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Ask anything you would consider too vague or too stupid. It is not supposed to be very refined or thought through, it can as well be a string of random symbols, just tell us how to read them. Consider it a very serious questions community, where questions most definitely are not serious, or the other way round. WE APPRECIATE ABSURDISM. WE APPRECIATE CREATIVITY. WE THRIVE ON ANSWERING GENUINE CURIOSITY!

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my personal vote is 32 (close enough to being sqrt of 1000, which helps me mentally convert number from basis 2 to basis 10, also perfect power of 2, a odd power of 2). second would be 42. (Yes, I prefer ranked choice voting)

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mathematics boils down to equating that number to itself. Everything else is fluff.

[–] sga 3 points 1 week ago

Extremelly fair point, 1/1 def agree

[–] Claymore@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

10

It's the limit of how high a typical person can count on their fingers, and therefore became a fairly standard unit to increase by within language. (Except in french, iirc)

[–] sga 1 points 1 week ago

then maybe i am internal french, because do you not have 10 toes?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sga 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and any special facts you would like to share about it?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] sga 2 points 1 week ago

fair reason, thanks

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is nitpicking, but aren't Roman numerals usually written in capital letters?
Did you use lower case letters to avoid confusion between 'I' and 'l'?

[–] sga 2 points 1 week ago

my guess is, smallcaps is easy to type, and usually enforced when picking handles (or recommended at the very least)

[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

7, because it’s got character. Way cooler than any other single digit number especially. Except maybe 0? Is 0 a number, or a lack of number?

[–] sga 1 points 1 week ago

it a number for sure, and one could argue, it is one of the most important things