Saturday, January 06, 2007

More "Three Is A Magic Number"

We live in a 3-dimensional space, have meals 3 times a day, sleep a third of each day, work a third of each day and take a rest a third of each day.

We go through birth, growth and death.

In the world of multicolour, there are 3 primary colours.

There are three basic states: liquid, solid, and gas.

3 is the only integer between e and π(pi).

Hockey games have 3 periods.

A Hat Trick in sports is someone scoring 3 goals in a game.

3 is the number of strikes before the batter is out and the number of outs per side per inning in Baseball.

Babe Ruth wore jersey number 3.

The Great One is 99 which is 3 x 33.

You give 3 cheers for someone, but not two or four.

The starter for a race will say "One, two, three, go." He will not count to two or four.

The alphabet is referred to as the ABC's and in the common expression: “Something is as easy as ABC”; one does not speak of learning his AB's or his ABCD's.

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