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So what's the deal with numbers, huh?
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Originally, people would look at their
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fingers and see that there was an
amount of them.
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This translated over to other amounts
of other things.
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And people eventually decided to
keep track of them.
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Alpha stages of the system started with
little rocks to keep track of
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sheep and stuff, but then went into
carving & written forms with tally marks.
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Then in Beta, the Babylonians did the
same thing, just organized.
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And all sorts of cultures had their own
ways of doing things.
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Egyptians even figured out the whole
base 10 thing,
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but we didn't get the full release
until version 0,
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when an Indian mathematician named
Brah-mgupta simply invented zero.
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But at this point, the whole world uses
all sorts of numbers all the time.
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But which ones are the best?
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You might be thinking, 'Oh, bigger
is better,'
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But there's so much more to it than that.
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So I'll take it upon myself to rank up all
these numbers
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with my unclouded, objective views on the
world, so you know which
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numbers you can count on.
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So here's the list, good to bad.
Let's go.
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Starting with number 1: This is a truly
iconic digit by all means.
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First place is the best place. It's the
easiest to write down.
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Especially when you can just put a line.
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It's the epitome of simplicity and victory
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A is the first letter in the alphabet.
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Now let's bring another one in here.
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(laughs) 2 used to be written as
two horizontal lines,
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which makes a lot of sense.
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Then, it evolved like "bah, bah, bah
bah, bah."
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Giving us the 2 that you know and love.
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This is the first even number on our list
and it's also the first prime number
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if you're into all that math stuff.
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There's 2 of a lot of things:
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Eyes, arms, bike wheels, and couples.
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2 brings many things together to
create pairs.
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There's even a major language... thing...
based around 2.
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'Bi-', like 'bicycle' and 'binary' -
which somehow doesn't have a 2
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which is very confusing.
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But 2 can also signify 1 against 1.
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Light and dark, good and bad, all
sorts of dualities.
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But 2 is nice, we'll also give it
A-tier.
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(quietly) Seperate it so it doesn't look
like a 12.
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Now 3 is also significant in so many
cultures.
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Mainly in religion and mythology.
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Having opposition or differing vibes with
2 is very interesting.
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But having 3 is a whole new level.
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You know, the Zeus-Poseidon-Hades
type stuff.
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A lot of dynamics get introduced with just
one new thing.
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For example, 'bicycle' ... 'tricycle!'
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So much more is going on here-
looks super sick.
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B-Tier.
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4 is used to make squares, which are
a very solid object.
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4 being solid has been a thought since
prehistory,
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with things just fitting together nicely
that way.
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You put down two lines and bam,
four directions.
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While 3 can easily hold up a chair or a
table, 4 is so much more common
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because of the absolute sturdiness you can
count on.
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Just like the beat to 90% of modern music!
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4 4 times sounds like
'bah, bah, bah, bah',
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and obviously it sounds amazing.
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S-Tier.
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Now 4 is considered unlucky in
Japanese cultures,
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but I don't think that really docks
it down by any points.
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Just like number 13.
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13 is unlucky for all sorts of people,
even getting its own spooky name-
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'Triskaidekaphobia'...
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13 started as unlucky due to Loki,
showing up to a party for 12 that he
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was not invited to, which ended
badly for most people.
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Then Friday got dragged into this with the
French play, Les Finesses des Gribouilles
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where a character says, "I was born on a
Friday, December 13th, 1813,"
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"from which come all of my misfortunes."
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Kinda grim, but yeah, Friday the
13th gets brought up all the time now.
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So yeah, I'm not against 13 for being
unlucky, I just don't think it's cool.
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(laughs) D-Tier.
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Now jumping on over to number 6.
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I like 6 a lot. I remember having some
sort of nice connection to 6 when
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I was a kid. And I think it still
holds up.
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This is the first combo of even and odd
numbers that makes a nice swirly guy
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that's nice to write out and look at.
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I say S-Tier.
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Next up is 7. 7 is the amount of planets
or whatever, the Babylonians thought
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were out there. You know, Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, moon, and the Sun.
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Turns out they were wrong, but they
didn't really find out until after
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they created the seven day weeks.
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But those aren't the only significant 7s.
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We got the seven wonders of the world...
ten of them.
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And the seven seas!
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1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
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D-Tier.
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Now there's this whole deal of putting
numbers together and making it have
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a whole new meaning. Normally called
math, but when it's sets of 3,
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it's an angel number. (magical music)
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Apparently 777 is an ultra angel number.
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Seven is as lucky in angel numbers as it
is at the casino!
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Now apparently there's an angel number
that's kind of bad.
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666 is another one of them unlucky numbers
that has a lot of religious no-nos that
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come with it.
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It's the number of the Beast, and maybe
just the Devil himself.
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And this also gets a fun phobia name:
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
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I don't know, I think it looks pretty cool
personally. A-Tier.
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On to 8. 8 makes me think of octopus,
octagon, Stop sign, October...
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October is month number 10. I wonder
where they messed up for that.
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8 has the same swirly factor as 6, but
this time, it goes woo-ooo-ooo-ooo.
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And it makes this loop-ty guy.
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Kinda looks like a 'B' if you write
it right.
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And 9 is just an upside-down 6, so
we'll just put it on the other side of S.
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I think that makes sense.
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Now like I mentioned earlier, numbers
wasn't numbers before 0 pulled up.
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Literally changed the game on how
we keep track of stuff.
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Oh, there's no grapes? No, there's
zero grapes.
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Really changes how you think, huh?
B-Tier.
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Now we're finally getting into the double
digits with 10.
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Our modern number system is base 10,
and we divvy things up into 10s
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with money, and time, and everything
we can when we get the chance.
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Because people just love seeing those
zeroes at the end of their numbers.
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10 is kind of like a deliverer of basic
joy from completion. S-Tier.
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100 is the same idea, to a greater extent.
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We base a lot of things after 100,
mainly percents. Also S.
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12 tries the same thing with the whole
dozen idea, but it definitely doesn't
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carry the same weight. C-Tier.
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Apparently 42 is the meaning of life,
but personally, I find life to mean
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whatever the journeyer of life thinks it
is for themself. (inspirational music)
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Many find that to be success, or
relationships, or just being an overall
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good person, but at the end of the day,
who's to say there is a really is a
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straight up meaning of life?
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Nobody really knows. Whatever the answer,
I refuse to believe that it's 42.
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But if you give this the whole 10
treatment, it gets a whole new meaning.
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We'll just make it switch sides.
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So Plato, he really likes 5,040.
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You can make perfectly formed groups out
of the first 11 numbers using this.
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I don't know. Personally it seems a little
too normal to say the wellbeing of a city
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depends on it.
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Alright, next we got a math legend,
as they call it.
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The number pi.
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Pi is honestly kind of cool looking,
and I guess it contributes nice
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to some circle stuff. And I like
those.
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Physics has the classic gravity number,
which is how much we're being held back
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from space. Don't hold me back,
stay grounded.
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Alright, it looks like we got most of the
regular numbers, so you know it's
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time for those bonus numbers.
(party music)
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We mentioned tally-mark before.
It's like 1 but stackable.
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And it's the easiest to understand out
of probably all the others.
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That's a point for S-Tier.
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Orient that a little different, and you
get the Kanji character for 1.
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This is a much quicker way to write,
as it follows the flow of your pencil.
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S-Tier.
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Imaginary numbers simply are imaginary,
and that should not make sense.
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E-Tier.
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Then we got infinity, which is all of
the numbers, so it only makes sense
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that it's all of the tiers.
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Along with omega, which apparently comes
after that?
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So it'll go into the next tier list.
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And finally, you already know bird from
Egypt gets the S-Tier treatment.
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Cool. Well, looks like we got all the
numbers in here. Seems like
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a very accurate list.
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Let me know which tier your favorite
number ended up in,
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and don't you dare even try
to disagree.
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Alright, sounds good fellas. Subscribe.
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