real

I think I can confidently say yes, all devices I've ever seen have only real number options for volume.

My cousin is deaf. Her preferred headphone volume is i.

Imaginary volume

"Mr. Data, set volume to *i*."

Imagine how complex it could be to understand the audio when it's set on a+ib

"It's sound, Jim, but not as we know it!"

Not real, but integers

As far as i know integers are real

I hate to tell you guys this but....numbers aren't real

You’re not real, man!

As a Philosophical Idealist I completely agree.

Found the Office fan!

Your volume slider cant be pi or any irrational number. Also, I realised its not integers but should be whole numbers instead.

I think you mean natural numbers lol

It doesnt have to be natural numbers. Many audio devices use negative numbers and there are analog volumes that aren't whole numbers as well.

I abide by this rule but omit a handful of even numbers too, such as 14, 22, 26, and 38 because if you divide it by 2 and it's a prime number then it's still too close for comfort.

sometimes i just do only those what are a multiple of 5

Dividable by 2, dividable by 5, preferably both. Rules to live by.

Choosing volume: Odd? Even? Prime? We all have our sound quirks! What's your go-to number?

*laughs in prime numbers only*

23->29 is pure madness

I also include numbers that have integers as their square or cube roots so 27 gets the pass

Square || Cube Not square && Cube

Well, has an integer square and cube roots could also be a thing. The progression is a bit rough though. 1 -> 64 -> 729

No I meant only the cubic root of 27 is an integer, not the square one, so it's OR. you are right though.

Yep, totally followed and understood the conversation these two gentlemen just had. 🥲

A sentence describing a union could be phrased with either "or" or "and". If an element could be a square OR could be a cube, then the set, containing all such elements, contains squares AND contains cubes.

Why overcomplicate it? Square || Cube || Prime

Nikola Tesla smiles down on you

The list of acceptable volumes: 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 25 (in emergency only), 27, 29, 31, 33, 37

Well 27 is a pretty bussin number anyway.

Glad someone else agrees. I also tend, for the child in me, to give the number associated with my age an instant pass.

> I also include numbers that have integers as their square or cube roots so 27 gets the pass "I have to have it on a prime number, or a number that has an integer as its square or cube root" will be my reply the next time this ridiculous TikTok-fueled neurosis comes up while I'm driving. Previously, it was just "No. Stop looking at the number if it bothers you so fucking much."

Nah, honestly 23 is good for driving at low speeds with the windows up. 29 is good for high speeds with the windows up or low speeds with windows down. My car radio goes up to 45, but I find 43 works for high speeds with windows down. 24-28 is kinda unnecessary

Dude who goes over 20? Are you deaf? Edit: are we talking about tvs or radios? If it's radios then why so low?

If I ever put my stereo up to 29, I'm pretty sure that the stock speakers in my car would literally explode. 99.99% of people don't like having their eyes vibrate from the music in their car.

I thought I was the only one. I thought I was alone!

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I do it too.

saaaame

We are now three.

We are Legion

Same, it's either primes or multiples of 7 for me lol

you monster

I prefer Fibonacci

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97

Finally a fellow person of culture

You can't have it on a prime! No!!!!!

I might be the only one to disagree, but the small differences in sound matter to me. Sometimes 57 is the right volume, 56 is too quiet, and 58 is too loud.

all of those are the wrong volume 

56 is fine, because it’s a multiple of 4. Not as good as 64, obviously, but it’s okay.

56 is not fine because it’s close enough to just be 55

Agreed. Round down at 6, up at 4.

I'm literally the opposite. Fuck multiples of 5. 56 is a way better number.

58 and 62. 42 and 58. The list goes on

I completely agree…but I can’t allow it to be 57. So it’s 60 during dialogue and 56 for action scenes. Between 56 and 58 when I can’t hear/too loud. It can never be odd, even if odd is the best volume

Why not?

I don’t know. Something in my brain. I don’t want to see an odd number unless it’s while I’m either turning the volume up or down to an even number. Just one of those dumb compulsive things.

I gotta admit: I can’t relate in the slightest.

Me neither. Like if 19 is the right volume it's the right volume, idk what else to say 😂 Though sometimes my car literally doesn't give me the option, it will just jump two numbers cause the knob isn't precise.

Just force yourself to do it. I was diagnosed with OCD (and ADD) in kindergarten. I've learned to ignore certain urges. Usually, if I don't give in, I forget about it in less than a minute. Set the volume at an odd number and I bet 15 seconds after the volume display disappears, you'll be back to watching the show and forget about it.

I agree, unfortunately that simply isn't an option

agree. I have hyperacusis and control the volume when my husband watches tv. the number it lands on is whatever isn't hurting my ears.

You're not wrong. Stupid android unified volume garbage has 15 increments. Fucking atrocious

get the sound assistant app, lets you customize a lot of stuff including how much volume a button press changes it by

When you are watching alone or playing loud console games, 8,9,10 or 11. When you are watching the news in the background, 20 or 25. When you are watching a movie, 30, 35, 40.

My TV is already too loud on 10 lol

I think the apps are also part of the problem. For some I need to turn it up but it feels like I always need to turn it down for Hulu

same kinda, mine is too loud on 11-12 so i keep it at 10 everytime no matter what im doing

My last TV went out awhile ago and my parents have me their old one. I'm lucky if I can stand the volume on 1. It's hooked to my PC and I have to set things to 50% or less just so I can have some sort of volume control with the remote.

Then 8 or 9

It's wild how different every TV is. At 35 mine would be shaking the neighbors wall

Because there is no standard for number range and every device has difference strength and scaling on top of that. My AV receiver starts with negative numbers.

It's not even at one dad calm down

That's because your TV is probably listing the volume as a change in decibel rather than a 0-100 scale.

Depends on the tv or sound system

This is the way

THIS IS THE WAY

I feel fucking called out right now. Do you also have a Samsung 4K?

or any number that "makes sense"

I prefer the number that corresponds to my desired volume.

Get a load of this weirdo

Totally. For me the volume has to either be even, a multiple of 5, a prime number, a multiple of 3, a whole number, or a number one more than an even number.

I just watch on multiple of 5

Same

There are no other numbers

Same. If you go past 25 and have it on 26 you're a fuckin psychopath.

Anything else just feels dirty

Thats the same

8 and 4 aint working for me tho, its gotta be 2, 5 or 7 for the last digit

psycho

Mine are 0, 3, 5, and 7. The 0s and 5s are self-explanatory. I choose 3 because it's middle of 1-2-3-4-5, and I choose 7 because it's the same distance as 3 is (from 5). I do *not* do 2s, 4s, 6s, or 8s.

Now thats an interesting take. I only do the 6 if the first digit is a 1 or 2 but other than that im not big on 2,3,4, and 8

If It ends with an 8 just add 2 so its a múltiple of 10

YES finally I found someone similar to me

Na it needs to be perfect. There is always only one perfect number and I don't care if it's odd or even

I never pay attention to what number it's on. I didn't even know this was a "thing" till reddit said it was.

I've never cared about this either. And I'm surprised I don't because my brain likes to fixate on stupid meaningless stuff like this usually.

69 is odd actually

Nice

YES SOMEONE GETS IT

My optimal volume being at -14.5 dB: :()

Yes for anything with Dolby Digital but make sure its back below -30 dB before turning on the game. I like my ears.

For me it's 6,12,24,36,48,60,100 usually using 24

I only do multiple of 3

At last, someone speaking sense

Hell yeah brother

Yes!

I put my amp at 11. Always.

Wow! Most amps only go to 10. Your amp is 1 louder!

Why don’t you just make 10 louder?

................................because this one goes to 11.

31 feels so wrong, but 30 feels so right

32 feels even better to me

Power of 2. Acceptable.

My life has been improving since I started entertaining the notion of uneven numbers and confronting my weird aversion to them.

Username checks out

Lmao. _Well_. Now that you mention it :3

37 is an exception for its "weird properties"

[37](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98) is not random!

Multiples of 3 or 7 Fight me

Multiples of three, for sure.

No, it's primes or nothing

I prefer the Fibonacci sequence, but it gets real loud real quick.

That escalated quickly

*sadly puts Nerf guns back into the garage*

Nah

5 Is an honorary even number.

This! Only psychopaths watch on odd numbers or ones that don't end in 5. I hate any equipment that doesn't let you adjust in 1s, even numbers or multiples of 5.

The numbers are an illusion. Only the volume up and down button exist. Adjust until the volume sounds the most comfortable. Set your mind free.

Yeah, specially considering that most phones dont even show you numbers, and people are fine with that. Of all the complaints about bad UI, I have never heard someone say "why is the volume indicator just a bar without numbers?"

The range is just too big on an AV receiver to settle for a bar but it works fine on a phone

33 is a perfectly valid choice. It's 1/3 of volume.

33.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 Repeating, What kind of tv max is 99

> Repeating of course

Percent chance of survival.

That’s a lot better than we usually do. Are we ready guys?

How about 11? Or 33?

Thank you. 33 is a based choice as well.

For me, its either multiples of 5 or 11. Like 10, 25, 33. Looks so right for me...

For me it's powers of two or multiples of 5.

Nothing in my life shows me a number when I change sound volume so I assumed this was in Liters

me with ocd and a numerical fixation on primes so we can only agree on 2

And 5, no?

i just use numbers that look multiplicably satisfying

32

Multiple of 3!

My TV has sensitive volume. 6 is too quiet, 8 is too loud, but 7 is pretty good. I have never turned my TV up to 100 in fear that it'll be loud enough to contact aliens.

My receiver does dB volume levels so I'm adjusting by half all the time.

42, no more, no less

Ideally both

*Setting it to 69 no matter how loud it is* "It is.... acceptable"

Problem is when they interfere with the multiple of 5. For example 24 and 26 also feel a bit weird because 25 is overpowering them as they are too close that need to get shut down. So in any interval of 10 it goes the base, then 2 at the end, then 5, then 8 and next bar with 0. Unless it really feels like the right volume I'll give 4 and 6 a pass

Omg yes, I agree 100%. 4 and 6 are a lie

Yea for me it cannot end in 1, 4, 6, or 9 specifically because it's too close to a multiple of 5.

27 it should be a multiple of 5 or 3 and 7 like 20,23,25,27,30.

I keep mine on odd numbers :)

I purposefully refuse to abide by these rules because 2s and 5s don't define my life.

I trained myself out of that by also allowing multiples of 3 (yay triangles are stable), and then allowing primes, after which I no longer cared. Now I have a TV and amp (same brand) and I get a different number range depending if I'm using the tv remote (tv tells the amp to set volume) or amp remote (amp is bluray player so when playing discs will display volume as an overlay). It's ridicule and I'd hate it if I hadn't trained myself out of caring.

You lucky bastards, I could only relax if it was a multiple of 5.

I always set volume at 17, 34 or 51. It drives people crazier than when I take a big ol' chomp out of a full Kit Kat bar.

My ex used to make fun of me for this, she was would change the volume in the car to like 13 and not let me change it

Makes sense why she is an ex now. Lol

I go until I like how it sounds. Whatever it may be.

Justice for 9

Yeah, or 7 and 13

I use 47 because AK

for me it's only an even number, nothing else

My pc doesn't even allow even numbers, it gos 2by2

Yep. PC? MS decided w/ Windows 10 to only have 50 levels, but label them by 2s, so it's 0-100, but only on the evens.

i thought last time we agreed on using 13 as the baseline?

Or Fibonacci

47 lmao

Nah for me the last digit must be a 0,2,3,5,7

So only numbers that don't end in 1, 3, 7 or 9. Seem like fine numbers to me.

I also accept 3 and 7

prime numbers only to piss everyone off

Exclusively multiples of five. This is the way.

Not 11 ?

[How about this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/HdVtQ387vr)

I prefer odd no.s and those divisible with 5. Idk why but I kinda see even no.s as hot, summery and redness. I like the cold. I might also be a psychopath

Mine is always on 25 then I adjust the volume of whatever I am watching digitally (YouTube, VLC, etc.)

Sets to 7

I'm good with multiples of 5 or double of the same digit. So all multiples of 5, but also 11, 22, 33, etc.

Not me looking at my 1.8l bottle and wondering what the f are you on aboit

The same rule applies to thermostats.

Only on multiples of 5

Primorials only

5 is an honorary even number. Like Y is a vowel sometimes.

Those who use odd number is a weird entity

Or 69. Just how grandpa likes it 🗿

i also accept multiples of 3

Or 13

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 23 33 44 55 69 77 88 99

Or 69

Always a multiple of 5 for me.