Interesting number thread

[mudskipper]

12 is an immensely important symbolic number in the Torah and Old Testament, and by continuation, the NT also.

The Nursing Times?

[nomadd]

Add 1 to the last number posted in the thread and say something interesting about the new number. When the thread ends we will have found the first uninteresting number.


I'll start with, erm, zero. And what an interesting number it is. Who can deny it's one of the most interesting numbers ever. The Romans didn't have it and what a crock of tulip their number system was, especially if you needed to do any arithmetic with it.

e to the i pi +1 = 0

Stanford University mathematics professor Dr. Keith Devlin said, "Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence

Enough said.

[d000hg]

WNS

[BrilloPad]

Personally I think they are all interesting.

[mudskipper]

13

13 is considered unlucky. Many streets don't have a number 13 for that reason.

13 is also a baker's dozen, which is odd. Don't bakers have basic numeracy skills?

[EternalOptimist]

can I say something about 13 ? seeing as we are on the subject.


Eleven plus two is an anagram of twelve plus one


and they both have how many characters in the statement ? = 13

[realityhack]

14

A number encoded into much of Johann Sebastian Bach's music.

It's also the number of legs on a woodlouse, which is nice.

[mudskipper]

A number encoded into much of Johann Sebastian Bach's music.

It's also the number of legs on a woodlouse, which is nice.

Please explain.

[realityhack]

Please explain.

From 14 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bach may have considered this number a sort of signature, since given A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc., then B + A + C + H = 14. (See also 41)

[mudskipper]

15

A quarter of young Britons lose their virginity at 15.

BBC News | HEALTH | Britons 'losing virginity at 15'