Do others also feel that uneven numbers are nicer and smoother than even numbers which feel edgy and hard? Even more so prime numbers.
Uneven numbers feel more alive and even numbers feel more settled.
So, prime number are the smoothest?
Absolutely 👌
What about 2?
What about 1?
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I’m from the 80s so I get that
Even numbers are the purest numbers. Perfectly balanced. Most odd numbers are flawed but can be made perfect together.
Primes, though. Primes can fuck right off no matter what.
What about 2 which is both even and prime?
2 is a maverick.
I like 303, very friendly like a shamrock.
But not 707, too sharp.
404 is weird.
27 is one of my favorites.
I have always liked 8, but mostly because 23
3443 is another great one.
Yeah, I feel prime numbers are more complete, like a sculpture. Even numbers feel like a pile of 2x2 cubes stacked by a toddler unless they have loads of factors (e.g. 24) which have a great mandalaesque sense of symmetry to them.
121 is my favourite number.
To me, even numbers are bouba, and odd numbers, especially primes, are kiki.
You have it backwards.
7 is jagged, 2 is a circle, 24 is almost a perfect sphere.
I’d say 7 is pointy, but not really jagged. 2 is rounded and pebble like, but I’m not sure if I’d call it a circle, more pill shaped.
17 is nice and round
What? 17 is a triangle. 33 is nice and round.
Huh? 33 is all bumpy. 69 is Nice. Also round.
It’s not about the literal shape of digits, it’s about the feeeeeling!
I can kinda see it.
12321 feels like a gentle hill to me
I feel the other way around, even numbers are nice and even, odd numbers are just odd and jaggy. Maybe except 5, like someone mentioned before it is a honourary even numbers almost.
I dunno about using the descriptors of “smooth” vs “hard”, but I definitely find some numbers more pleasing than others. I have no idea why. I guess for me it’s more about the flow of them, how they’re ordered, how they LOOK. It has nothing to do with primes, odds, even, etc. Like, I just see some numbers and think “I don’t like that one” but then others I’m cool with. 5112 is nice, 7654 I don’t like, for example.
Sounds like you have some aspect of synaesthesia, but there’s no way to be completely sure about that. Numbers usually come with attached context, which may even be specific to the individual, and can affect how people feel about them whether they have crossed senses or not.
As for me, uh. I like numbers, but I think if I had any feelings about specific ones, practical concerns have long since overridden any of that, so my feelings can’t have been that strong in the first place.
Practical concerns like a preferred number being too quiet or too loud on a volume setting, for example, which people often cite as having to be on certain values with certain properties. Likewise, temperature settings, where that’s even possible to control in the first place.
Odd numbers stand in middle of an entire set, so its uniform
Best even numbers are like 10, 20, 50, 100
If you mean digits, yeah… Maybe 2 is decent.
You’re an odd duck.
