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Very large numbers (e.g. Graham's number)

Non-repeating, non-ending decimals like pi (a.k.a. Irrational numbers)

Complex numbers (a.k.a. part real, part imaginary numbers)

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[FakerFangirl]

Let's take pride in our ignorance
I find irrational numbers the scariest.

[ChairmanPoo]

Seven, no doubt about it

[nenjin]

23.

Oh you meant scary, not most ridiculous. My bad.

[ChairmanPoo]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[martinuzz]

The number on the bottom line of my yearly energy bill

[Levi]

Definitely seven.

One is the loneliest number though.

[NJW2000]

Transcendentals. Or maybe infinites, I dunno.

[ChairmanPoo]

Definitely seven.

One is the loneliest number though.

Corrected

[Eric Blank]

Anything that involves an i. It makes calculus homework unbearable.

[martinuzz]

C'mon, adding and subtracting aren't that hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tnBUDN9X0

[TheDarkStar]

The scariest number is the smallest number that can't be posted in one post of 40,000 characters.

[Fniff]

19.
Don't know why, it's just a scary-sounding number.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

0. I mean, it's a number that represents the absence of anything tangible. THAT is terrifying. Physicists these days aren't even 100% sure that such emptiness actually exists.

[Reelya]

23.

Oh you meant scary, not most ridiculous. My bad.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/23-fascinating-facts-about-the-number-twenty-three-6262624.html

John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who was the subject of the film, A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe, was obsessed with 23. It featured prominently in his battle with mental illness. His breakdown began when he claimed that a photograph of Pope John XXIII on the cover of Life magazine was in fact him, the proof being that 23 was his favourite number. Nash published 23 scientific articles.
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Few hold 23 in more esteem than the followers of Discordianism, a self-declared religion based on the premise that discord and chaos are the building blocks of life. For Discordianists, 23 is the Holy Number and a tribute to the goddess Eris, who surveys a world of chaos.
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The author William Burroughs was obsessed with 23. While living in Tangiers, he met a Captain Clark who ran a ferry between Spain and Morocco. One day, Clark told Burroughs that he had been doing the route for 23 years without incident. Later that day, the ferry sank, killing the captain. While Burroughs was thinking about the incident, a radio bulletin announced the crash of a Flight 23 on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark. The events prompted an obsession which saw Burroughs record every occurrence of the number 23 for the rest of his life.
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"W" is the 23rd letter of the Latin alphabet. It has two points down and three points up. White supremacists use 23 to represent "W" as a mark of racial superiority.

[Max™]

The 81st digit of pi because I can never remember past the ...20899... point.