So what's the deal with numbers, huh?

Originally, people would look at their

fingers and see that there was an
amount of them.

This translated over to other amounts
of other things.

And people eventually decided to
keep track of them.

Alpha stages of the system started with
little rocks to keep track of

sheep and stuff, but then went into 
carving & written forms with tally marks.

Then in Beta, the Babylonians did the
same thing, just organized.

And all sorts of cultures had their own
ways of doing things.

Egyptians even figured out the whole 
base 10 thing,

but we didn't get the full release
until version 0,

when an Indian mathematician named 
Brah-mgupta simply invented zero.

But at this point, the whole world uses
all sorts of numbers all the time.

But which ones are the best?

You might be thinking, 'Oh, bigger
is better,'

But there's so much more to it than that.

So I'll take it upon myself to rank up all
these numbers

with my unclouded, objective views on the
world, so you know which

numbers you can count on.

So here's the list, good to bad. 
Let's go.

Starting with number 1: This is a truly
iconic digit by all means.

First place is the best place. It's the 
easiest to write down.

Especially when you can just put a line.

It's the epitome of simplicity and victory

A is the first letter in the alphabet.

Now let's bring another one in here.

(laughs) 2 used to be written as
two horizontal lines,

which makes a lot of sense.

Then, it evolved like "bah, bah, bah
bah, bah."

Giving us the 2 that you know and love.

This is the first even number on our list
and it's also the first prime number

if you're into all that math stuff.

There's 2 of a lot of things:

Eyes, arms, bike wheels, and couples.

2 brings many things together to 
create pairs.

There's even a major language... thing... 
based around 2.

'Bi-', like 'bicycle' and 'binary' - 
which somehow doesn't have a 2

which is very confusing.

But 2 can also signify 1 against 1.

Light and dark, good and bad, all
sorts of dualities.

But 2 is nice, we'll also give it
A-tier.

(quietly) Seperate it so it doesn't look
like a 12.

Now 3 is also significant in so many 
cultures.

Mainly in religion and mythology.

Having opposition or differing vibes with
2 is very interesting.

But having 3 is a whole new level.

You know, the Zeus-Poseidon-Hades
type stuff.

A lot of dynamics get introduced with just
one new thing.

For example, 'bicycle' ... 'tricycle!'

So much more is going on here- 
looks super sick.

B-Tier.

4 is used to make squares, which are
a very solid object.

4 being solid has been a thought since
prehistory,

with things just fitting together nicely 
that way.

You put down two lines and bam, 
four directions.

While 3 can easily hold up a chair or a 
table, 4 is so much more common

because of the absolute sturdiness you can
count on.

Just like the beat to 90% of modern music!

4 4 times sounds like 
'bah, bah, bah, bah',

and obviously it sounds amazing.

S-Tier.

Now 4 is considered unlucky in
Japanese cultures,

but I don't think that really docks 
it down by any points.

Just like number 13.

13 is unlucky for all sorts of people, 
even getting its own spooky name-

'Triskaidekaphobia'...

13 started as unlucky due to Loki, 
showing up to a party for 12 that he

was not invited to, which ended
badly for most people.

Then Friday got dragged into this with the
French play, Les Finesses des Gribouilles

where a character says, "I was born on a
Friday, December 13th, 1813,"

"from which come all of my misfortunes."

Kinda grim, but yeah, Friday the 
13th gets brought up all the time now.

So yeah, I'm not against 13 for being
unlucky, I just don't think it's cool.

(laughs) D-Tier.

Now jumping on over to number 6.

I like 6 a lot. I remember having some 
sort of nice connection to 6 when

I was a kid. And I think it still
holds up.

This is the first combo of even and odd 
numbers that makes a nice swirly guy

that's nice to write out and look at.

I say S-Tier.

Next up is 7. 7 is the amount of planets
or whatever, the Babylonians thought

were out there. You know, Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, moon, and the Sun.

Turns out they were wrong, but they 
didn't really find out until after

they created the seven day weeks.

But those aren't the only significant 7s.

We got the seven wonders of the world... 
ten of them.

And the seven seas!

1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

D-Tier.

Now there's this whole deal of putting
numbers together and making it have

a whole new meaning. Normally called
math, but when it's sets of 3,

it's an angel number. (magical music)

Apparently 777 is an ultra angel number.

Seven is as lucky in angel numbers as it 
is at the casino!

Now apparently there's an angel number 
that's kind of bad.

666 is another one of them unlucky numbers
that has a lot of religious no-nos that

come with it.

It's the number of the Beast, and maybe 
just the Devil himself.

And this also gets a fun phobia name:
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

I don't know, I think it looks pretty cool
personally. A-Tier.

On to 8. 8 makes me think of octopus, 
octagon, Stop sign, October...

October is month number 10. I wonder
where they messed up for that.

8 has the same swirly factor as 6, but 
this time, it goes woo-ooo-ooo-ooo.

And it makes this loop-ty guy.

Kinda looks like a 'B' if you write
it right.

And 9 is just an upside-down 6, so
we'll just put it on the other side of S.

I think that makes sense.

Now like I mentioned earlier, numbers
wasn't numbers before 0 pulled up.

Literally changed the game on how
we keep track of stuff.

Oh, there's no grapes? No, there's
zero grapes.

Really changes how you think, huh?
B-Tier.

Now we're finally getting into the double
digits with 10.

Our modern number system is base 10, 
and we divvy things up into 10s

with money, and time, and everything
we can when we get the chance.

Because people just love seeing those
zeroes at the end of their numbers.

10 is kind of like a deliverer of basic 
joy from completion. S-Tier.

100 is the same idea, to a greater extent.

We base a lot of things after 100, 
mainly percents. Also S.

12 tries the same thing with the whole
dozen idea, but it definitely doesn't

carry the same weight. C-Tier.

Apparently 42 is the meaning of life, 
but personally, I find life to mean

whatever the journeyer of life thinks it 
is for themself. (inspirational music)

Many find that to be success, or 
relationships, or just being an overall

good person, but at the end of the day, 
who's to say there is a really is a

straight up meaning of life?

Nobody really knows. Whatever the answer, 
I refuse to believe that it's 42.

But if you give this the whole 10
treatment, it gets a whole new meaning.

We'll just make it switch sides.

So Plato, he really likes 5,040.

You can make perfectly formed groups out
of the first 11 numbers using this.

I don't know. Personally it seems a little
too normal to say the wellbeing of a city

depends on it.

Alright, next we got a math legend, 
as they call it.

The number pi.

Pi is honestly kind of cool looking, 
and I guess it contributes nice

to some circle stuff. And I like
those.

Physics has the classic gravity number, 
which is how much we're being held back

from space. Don't hold me back, 
stay grounded.

Alright, it looks like we got most of the 
regular numbers, so you know it's

time for those bonus numbers. 
(party music)

We mentioned tally-mark before. 
It's like 1 but stackable.

And it's the easiest to understand out
of probably all the others.

That's a point for S-Tier.

Orient that a little different, and you
get the Kanji character for 1.

This is a much quicker way to write, 
as it follows the flow of your pencil.

S-Tier.

Imaginary numbers simply are imaginary, 
and that should not make sense.

E-Tier.

Then we got infinity, which is all of 
the numbers, so it only makes sense

that it's all of the tiers.

Along with omega, which apparently comes
after that?

So it'll go into the next tier list.

And finally, you already know bird from
Egypt gets the S-Tier treatment.

Cool. Well, looks like we got all the 
numbers in here. Seems like

a very accurate list.

Let me know which tier your favorite
number ended up in,

and don't you dare even try 
to disagree.

Alright, sounds good fellas. Subscribe.

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