I am such a geek!

I can be a complete geek about numbers. I just noticed I've given an even 2,700 hugs!

I've given out lots of hugs too....which is strange cause in real life I'm not a hug person at all.

Lol...I just added another one to my count hugging your post. I find that I use the hugs to acknowledge I read a post when no time to reply or don't have the words for a reply....2700 is a nice round number

I get really excited if my-or, when I worked as a cashier, my customer's-total at the market or thrift shop is a palindrome. And I will share said excitement as though the numbers upon the screen hold the secret to eternal youth. "Look! You're total is the same backwards and forwards." Said I to a woman whose total was $ 10.01. She was not at all amused by this fact, which could only lead me to the conclusion that she was a rather dull person. As was the cashier at the thrift-shop the other day.
There was no point to the story; I simply thought it appropriate to share my own number-related geekiness. I also really prefer to do things by threes.
What, if you wouldn't mind elaborating, is your reasoning behind enjoying the number 2,700 so much?

Like you I like numbers. I would like your palindrome numbers. And you're right. Most other folks don't notice or care. It's not the actual number 2700, it's that I noticed the number when it was exactly 2700, not 2703 or 2697. I don't pay attention to the number of hugs I've given, but the number jumped off the page at me. I'm such a geek about this sort of thing that I pulled off the road and took a picture of my truck's odometer when it read 123,456.

Talking about numbers....the first house we bought new...picked out model & location..the lot #was 33. We bought a time share in Jackson Hole Wyo. the room # they gave us was #33. The second brand new house we bought...again picked location by lot size & model....that lot # was 33 & the zip code there had 2 3's in it (93535).

I left my H & found the farm I liked & bought. The zip again has 2 3's in it (40330) & the street I live on has a highway number associated with it that also has 2 3's in the number....the first digit of my house number would be 3x3.....can't believe how many times that # has come up in my life now.

Forgive me if this is off topic, but I would be interested to know if anyone assigns personalities to certain numbers. For example, I always imagine that "9" is the stern, older brother of "6". 6 is very open and friendly, whereas 9 is much more reserved and serious. 7 is a bit of a perfectionist, or he seems that way. He is very goal-oriented. 1 is seen as very stuck-up, but really, she is just quiet. She enjoys solitary nights. 2 is shy-unlike 1, who is introverted-and has a sweet nature. She can be a bit clingy when in an unfamiliar setting. I won't go on listing every number and their personalities, as that would be ridiculous.

Middaynap, never thought of assigning personalities to numbers, but it sounds interesting.

I tend to just assign personalities to whether I like to be around them or not....I tend to think of lines as having infinite number of points & personalities as sort of a spectrum thing....I even have a problem assigning a # to how I'm doing in therapy...close but never at a specific number....maybe my years of advanced math for my computer degree messed up my concept of specific numbers concept

Geekin' out-- just hit 1818 posts. Divisible by 9, 6, and 3--202, 303, and 606.

Maybe we should move this particular one to a new thread. I've heard of a personality typing system called the Enneagram (9-writing) where numbers actually are associated with personality types....

But for right now, what's the emoticon for a "grouphug"?

^^^^ Do you mean this?

It was interesting,,,,in junior high my home room was 210. I always remembered that one classroom number & never realized why until the year 2010.....then I finally correlated why those #'s felt comfortable & stuck in my memory....my birthday is 2/10.... Duh..it was so obvious when i realized it.

I was never particularly fond of mathematics at school. I'm not sure why. I think if I'd applied myself more I would have liked it more but for some inexplicable reason it just got thrown by the wayside.

However, since then I've come to appreciate the connection between numbers. I like seeing the relationships between them.

Many years ago I got this book:



It's really rather interesting, although I will admit I still haven't finished reading it yet... (I believe the author has published another 2 similar books since then too)

Oh, I'd not heard of Enneagram before, thank you. This appears to be a method of assigning numbers to personalities, however, not personalities to numbers.
I hope it wasn't rude to bring up something so off-topic, I was just curious if others imagined numbers as characters (I suppose is the best word) as well. (Bah, perhaps I've an overly-active imagination.)