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This may be the dumbest nerdiest list I’ve ever made. It embarrasses me.

  1. Fast Inverse Square Root ~ 0x5f3759df

    The most magical of all magic numbers. Google if you’re curious but probably only if you’re also a programmer.

  2. Avogadro’s Number ~ 6.02e23

    Just an all around fascinating number. I mean really, heavy gas, light gas, doesn’t matter! It’s always the same. Surprising and cool. Of course now that I think about it, the fact that it is the same is probably what makes it possible for a gas to be “heavy” in the first place. Idk. It’s just cool.

  3. Zero – 0

    What a strange little monster. Adds nothing. Takes everything away. And makes so many things possible.

  4. Feigenbaum Constant ~ 4.6692ish

    If God is a number he is approximately equal to 4.6692.

  5. Tau ~ 6.28ish

    Like Pi’s more refined sister, equally important, more sensible, and way less trendy.

  6. First Standard Deviation of the Normal Distribution ~ 68.2%

    Thanks to the central limit theorem this is one powerful little number. Thank you for making statistical analysis work.