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Apparently Mark S has a problem with the number five. People tried to explain the problem with five to me at Glastonbury, but I'd had a bit too much "perry". So can anyone come up with a convincing reason why five is a bad number?

I've never really liked seven, but I think that's because the seven times tables were really hard to learn.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

7 is the 'number of life' or summat

5 is a great number, i find it vary satisying. it's a good number for a band.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The five times table is very repetitive.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.eslkidstuff.com/images/five.gif
A five, yesterday.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's something to do with the Illuminati, isn't it? That 4 is the most number of simultaneous connections humans can interact in, so making them interact with 5 causes chaos. Or, erm, something.

― My New Identity (kate), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer 7-up to 5-alive

― Davel (Davel), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's also the biggest number of 'things' you can recognise at one glance without having to count them or subdividing.

I heared celeb. Johnny Vaughan can do eight, but then ....

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Five is famous, seven is only secret.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The five times table is very repetitive.

that's only becaue you are using base ten numbering. The five times table is brilliant in hexidecimal or base 12.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the 101 times table is pretty cool in binary as well

― Davel (Davel), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

there was briefly a Peanuts character named 5; he had sisters named 3 and 4

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the rabbits in Watership Down could only count up to four. Anything more was 'a multitude'.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

5 has always been my favorite number. It's odd, and prime, and I agree that it's satifying on some level (perhaps because it's the number of fingers, toes on each limb?)

― Laura E (laurae55), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

*apparently* it is a 'goddess number'. Because when you arrange it as dots over two lines - it is (2 dots) nipples, (3 dots) punani triangle.*apparently*

― badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Trinity denied and two horns of defiance? according to Church of Satan gimmicks, but in Tarot, the five suits are downers: defeat, worry, etc.

― hexxyDevil, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Paintings&Poems/Demuth.5.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

If I were to imagine why someone would have a problem with 5, I'd have to glean it was something to do with how just by being the count of default finger/toes, it's completely warped our concept of numbers. Time in particular is cut up into five minute sections, 60 second blocks, 10 and 100 year spans of "importance".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill?

The Charles DeMuth painting was inspired by a poem by William Carlos Williams:

"Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Five is boring. It's unsatisfying. Maybe that's just because it's overexposed with the fingers and senses and toes and whatnot.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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