Why Cool Numbers?

Numbers are fun, besides being cool like bow ties are cool.  Number patterns show up all around us, just like God does.

The odometer on your car regularly shows a palindrome; how often depends on the number of digits displayed. Dates have numerical representations – who doesn’t like PI Day (3/14 = March 14 ~ 3.14 ~ PI)?   You can tip exactly 15% or 20%, or you can tip an amount that makes the dollars and the cents equal (e.g. $37.37).  Prime numbers are especially indivisible.  The Fibonacci sequence shows up in nature’s loveliness.

And, for a bonus, there are some jokes about numbers!  The best ten-word joke ever:

What did the zero say to the eight?

“Nice belt.”

 

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