One

• If a zero is a nobody, number one is the opposite extreme: the best, a winner, a leader, a favourite etc.

• One is a lonely number and the Chinese believe it to be unlucky.

• 1 is the atomic number of hydrogen, which means there is only one proton (positively charged particle) in each hydrogen atom. This puts hydrogen at the top of the Periodic Table, which lays out all the known elements – of which there are currently 117 confirmed – in order of their atomic number. Hydrogen is reckoned to makeup about three-quarters of the mass in the universe.

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do
One is the loneliest number, worse than two
                             ‘One’ by Harry Nilsen