What if you had two numbers?

Answer 1

One thing is that you'd be ready for all kinds of fun. You could add them, subtract them, multiply them, divide them, factor them, take roots, make powers, write them in different bases, and just have a fine time with them all day long.

Unfortunately, you'd have to take the bad with the good. You would find, far more often than probability or anybody's Erlangs would lead you to expect, that just as you started up a good conversation on one of them, inevitably the other one would ring.

Answer 2

One thing is that you'd be ready for all kinds of fun. You could add them, subtract them, multiply them, divide them, factor them, take roots, make powers, write them in different bases, and just have a fine time with them all day long.
Unfortunately, you'd have to take the bad with the good. You would find, far more often than probability or anybody's Erlangs would lead you to expect, that just as you started up a good conversation on one of them, inevitably the other one would ring.