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By Conor Hogan
Numbers are great. Without them, if somebody asked your age, your reply would be, ˜I don’t know.” You wouldn’t be able to ring people on the phone, or know what time the next episode of Mad Men was on RTE 1. There wouldn’t even be such a thing as an RTE 1. As a result, JOE has decided to honour some of our favourite digits and has composed this list of the top 5 numbers from 1 to 5.
1. Three
Was it not Samuel Beckett who once said, “3 is a magic number. Yes it is, it’s a magic number?” For threesomes are by far the nicest way to play golf, all great movie trilogies come in threes, and without it tricycles, forests, and triangular shaped cheeses couldn’t exist.
3 looks like half an 8, and was even offered the chance to be the number 4. It turned that offer down, however, not wanting the pressure involved with that kind of life. Often seen as less than 4 as a result, but not by us. For unlike 4, it cannot be divided by any other number apart from 1 (And even when 3 is divided by 1, it is strong minded enough to not let the experience change it at all).
2. One
It’s an excellent number certainly, (it’s the only positive integer divisible by exactly one positive integer, for God’s sake) and the only problem with 1 is that at times it can be a bit full of itself. If it showed a bit of humility and didn’t constantly declare “I’m number 1, I’m number 1 all the time, then I might have agreed with it, and given it top spot.
3. Five
5 is sometimes accused of being an odd untouchable number, but you probably just have to get to know him. Eamon Dunphy once said of him, “he’s a good prime number, not a great prime number.”
5 is the third Catalan integer, and lives with his wife and kids in a villa near Barcelona. He once recorded an album with Lenny Kravitz but is probably best known for being the atomic number of boron. He gets annoyed when people mistake him for the letter S.
4. pi
Pi (or 3.141593 as it is known to its friends) was discovered by the Egyptians three and a half thousand years ago, before being popularised in the United States in the mid-1960s. It comes in many flavours, including apple, pecan, and steak and kidney.
5. Rocky IV
That’s the one where Rocky goes to Russia, defeats Ivan Drago, and ends communism. The soundtrack includes the song ‘Heart’s on Fire’ by John Cafferty (below).
