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You are wrong.

Dog Night

Weird sisters

три

Show off <3

What does that mean?

Oh! NM. Except for the show off business. :P

Yes, this is my life right now. Три, тринадцять, тридцять, триста, три тисячі, три мільйони. Я студентka української мови :)



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You are a very good student of the Ukrainian language!

...points determine a plane.

Another smarty pants!

Three points determine an over-determined line.

:P

Nephites

blind mice

throuple

Fact blind Mormons walk into a soda shop.......

...little pigs

That’s more like it!

The emotional age of Elder Bednar

...dog nights are colder than two dog nights.  No dog nights are lonely.

Yes.

I have to settle for 1 dog and 2 cat nights. That's still 3!

One is the loneliest number.

Two can be as bad as one, its the loneliest number since the number one

(Whatever that was supposed to mean)

> One is the loneliest number.

But it has an imaginary friend.

Now, now. Don't be negative just because we all think you're square.

You might want to touch up your roots.

Three points in a plane determine a circle. If the three points are in a straight line, they determine a circle of infinite radius. Two circles, actually, one on either side of the line.

Cool. I vaguely remember learning how to draw a circle through the three points from high school geometry. Fun stuff!

I bet I could find an axiom about making a triangle from three points. ;-)

I think the perpendicular bisectors of any two pairs of the points will intersect at the center of the circle going through all three points.

How did I forget 3 points determine a triangle. D'oh!

If the squares of the two shorter legs of the triangle equal the square of the longest leg, it is a right triangle. Pythagoras gets credit for this, but the Sumerians knew it over a thousand years earlier. No doubt the extraterrestrial Anunnaki told them. ;)

I still have my 49 cent compass from doing just that!

Words that are probably related to three:
tribe, tribute, tributary, tribunal, tribune, distribution, retribution, contribution.

Trilobite, triceratops, Triassic, Tertiary.

Testamentary, from "ter-stis", third party standing between accuser and accused. Testimonial, protest, contest have the same root.

A triumphal procession was originally one accompanied by triple-time music. A trump card allows you to triumph.

Trivium is where three roads or paths meet. Also the minor subjects in the traditional Medieval curriculum - grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Trimester. At Cambridge one takes the "tripos examination". At one time the questions were asked by the "bachelor of the tripos,", who sat on a three-legged stool.

Tertium non datur - the law of the excluded middle
Tertium quid - third alternative to true or false

Neptune's trident had three tines. Trammel was a triple-mesh net. Drill is a three-thread cloth, compare to twill, a two-thread cloth.

Tierce:
the third hour of the canonical day
wine measure equal to one third of a pipe
the third of the eight parries of sword-play
a run of 3 cards in a suit
the vertex of a pointed arch
heraldic symbol of 3 triangles
the musical interval of a third, or of two octaves and a third.

Trepidation does not have three as a root. It's root means to rub or beat, as in trepanning a skull.

Source: The Book of Numbers, John Conway, Richard Guy

Show off!

Hey, I do well in Trivia Night at bars. ;) Also, I own too many books on math

"as in trepanning a skull"

Way to get on-topic.

Brother Of Jerry Wrote:
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> I own too many books on math.

A sentence I will never utter. Because numbers... :)

Three is a starter marriage in a polygamous church...

And you have to have at least three wives to make it.

Heaven knows how he keeps the names straight when he's writing out those monthly checks.

It's fortunate he still receives royalties from those Our Gang reruns on Nickelodeon.



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Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Curly, Moe, and Larry

Russell, Dallin, and Henry

The Asvin Twins and the Goddess of Dawn, the Three Muses, the Three Fates, the Three Harpies.

The Goddess of Dawn and the two Dioskouroi in Greece; the same Goddess and the Asvin twins in Vedic culture; in agricultural societies, the Mother Goddess, her consort, and their son, who kills and then replaces the consort and will in turn be killed and replaced by his son. In the Judeao-Christian world, God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost and then the Father, Son, and Mary.

"Three" is a psychologically and religiously important number. "Two" brings the juxtaposition of different and opposing forces--yin and yang, good and evil, night and day, man and woman. There's a balance, a stasis.

"Three" breaks the stalemate and introduces change. It is when the two antagonistic forces, the two deities, combine to initiate the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is the third force that starts the cosmic and celestial machinery in motion.

The Three Musketeers
Chico, Harpo, and Groucho
Charlie's Angels
Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony
The Three Kings
Barry, Robin, and Maurice
Three Amigos
The Macbeth witches


OK. This has got to stop.

Yes! MacBeth called them the weird sisters.

The Weird Sisters are also a band in the Harry Potter series.

I am such a nerd.

Finally something makes sense!

bean salad

Manny, Moe, and Jack

poisons: greed, hate and ignorance.

virtues: generosity, loving-kindness and search for wisdom.

I was three once. A very long time ago.

The new age to serve a junior mission.

The granting of three wishes in fairy tales

And behind door number three is.....

Three ring circus

Birth, life, death
Harmony, wisdom, understanding
Past, present, future
Beginning, middle, end

Rap at the LDS temple veil three times to summon God

LDS temple architecture has three layers all over the place on the building exteriors.

I have heard of Schoolhouse Rock, but it came along after my youth, and not having kids, this is the first time I have actually seen an episode. It was delightful. Between this and Sesame Street and youtube math sites like 3blue1brown and numberphile, I feel like I was born 25 (45?) years too soon!

OTOH, dagny and I are among the few here who understand why and how a slide rule worked, which was so much more informative than knowing how to use a calculator, even if the slide rule was slower and less accurate.

> . . . dagny and I are among the few here who
> understand why and how a slide rule worked. . . even if the slide rule was
> slower and less accurate.

I hate to be a stickler, but. . .

If you grew up from the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, you've seen Schoolhouse Rock.

"Conjunction Junction, what's your function..."


I'm also a retro nerd, so I also know how to use a slide rule -- and an E6B flight computer :)

the number of intel engineers to change a bulb

one to change the bulb, and one to calculate its lifespan to several decimals

..is the number thou shalt count; and the number of the counting shall be three.

Personally, my favourite number has always been 7.