Originally Posted by StuartD

Yes, let's take an imaginary "beast" and then pretend that for some reason, this beast would want a number... but we don't know what number he wants, since he's imaginary... so we'll just make one up... and what ever we choose... that will forever haunt us and make us live in fear when ever we encounter it... and then, we'll forget what that number is... and eventually just come up with an entirely different number to make sure that we can keep our imaginary fears intact.

That sounds like a good idea