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Why do I hate even numbers so much??? I hate looking at them,talking about them ,everything about them I hate. I like odd numbers, Is there anybody else who understands and shares this thing with numbers at all ???

I also have inexplicable feelings associated with various numbers. I would say i generally find odds more interesting, especially primes. Zero/ten are the most tolerable evens. And 6 in certain situations. The only number i really really don't like is 14. no idea why. Since these feelings far as i've discovered dont necessarily confer any savant abilities (though i do like to study numbers, primes particularly) it may actually signify something slightly schizotypal . . . Just a random explanation for a preference of odd numbers, is that positionally there can be a center, linearly in the least, and further geometric relationships could certainly be explored. I would definitely recommend for you to study the primes (all of which are odd naturally). I consider a prime number, to be the true name of a number, meaning a number should fundamentally be understood as its primal order. 1 is 2, 2 is 3, 3 is 5, 4 is 7, 5 is 11, 6 is 13. Etcetera through infinity, though out finite brains of coarse have limits to comprehension. Ulams spiral, palindrome primes, twin primes. the largest known prime in the decimal system it requires 4,053,946 digits to be written fully : http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/largeprime.html. Thats slightly outdated actually its just the largest prime i could find written out in a quick search. Large primes are usually referred to using their Mersenne number, which i am about to read about to try to understand what that means. http://primes.utm.edu is a good resource. Wikipedia is a good starting point too. Holy cow prime numbers make me excited.

ok i think i understand the Mersenne number. the largest yet discovered prime (2008) is Mersenne number 43112609, which means 2 ^ raised to the power of 43112609, which would be an even number, so subtract one, and that is your prime. it is 12,978,189 digits long.

I hate hearing "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant. It literally makes my skin crawl and I will flee from its menace if it is at all possible.
All humans are is walking bags of unreasonable likes and dislikes. Embrace it.

I got an uncomfortable feeling from odd numbers as a child. I never knew why and never told anyone about it.

In the words of Beavis and Butt-head, "I hate numbers. There's too many of them."

I don't like odd numbers...