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This is a reference to a short story? Or was it a New Yorker cartoon?

Or "The Prisoner" TV series.

Maybe a reference to this: http://xkcd.com/327/

Should the number be a collection of binary digits, decimal...

I admire how tudorw has largely avoided this problem by nabbing "1". :)

I might not be a prime, but I know my place; http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/one.html

No, a number. Not a string that consists of digits. Numbers can have more than one representation.

The real question is: Do we stick to integers? Otherwise I want a supernatural number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_numbers) or at least something like i (where i^2=-1), or perhaps a normal number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number).

my name is 2a2318da-c1a7-4416-a5c5-8acb17d9e85d.

Oh good, I always wondered who number 1 was

You are number six.