One or two subs

Two, for best affect.

I think an important piece of information that you omitted is the size of your room? If it's a large room I'd go with two subs along the line that Larryi mentioned above. So what is the size of your room?

Unfortunately I have one of those living and dining room combos. 12x26 with 10 foot ceilings.

I think I would go with two subs separated into two different corners or sides so the room if possible.

A 50 Hz sound wave would be a bit less than 23 feet long, assuming the speed of sound is 1125 feet/second at sea level.

A half wave would be 11 to 12 feet long. If your subs are 11 to 12 feet apart, the peak pressure from one sub would reach the other sub as it is making its low pressure point, cancelling its effect at that location, assuming a mono signal.

If you are at some arbitrary listening position in the room, the sound wave cancellation would depend on the frequency and your distance from each sub. For a mono signal, the best positions would be equidistant from the two subs.

Off the center line, there will be frequencies where the two subs will have an additive effect, resulting in a fairly uneven frequency distribution.

Room resonances further complicate the situation.