Do you notice numbers?

[Ishmael]

My ex was a new years baby. Every time she had to give DOB people are incredulous. There are slightly less than 1/365 of the population born on that day because no one schedules a c-section on a holiday, but pretty close.

Birthdays have some strange statistics. If you assemble a group of 50 random people it is even odds that at least two will share the same birthday.

Ishmael

 

[Cleopatra]

I notice patterns, and every now and then I think I'm seeing a pattern more often than randomly usual, and get slightly interested in what I'll see next, but them I remember we're hard-wired to make seemingly random numbers, events, ordinary things into patterns so our little tiny brains can process them.

Then I take a nap.

 

[Ishmael]

I notice patterns, and every now and then I think I'm seeing a pattern more often than randomly usual, and get slightly interested in what I'll see next, but them I remember we're hard-wired to make seemingly random numbers, events, ordinary things into patterns so our little tiny brains can process them.

Then I take a nap.

Exactly. The same reason that some folks drive themselves bat shit crazy trying to make sense out of the acts of the truly insane. Trying to make sense out of nonsense will drive any one insane.

Ishmael

 

[Mike_Yates]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVPT0JT1dOw

 

[Que]

Birthdays have some strange statistics. If you assemble a group of 50 random people it is even odds that at least two will share the same birthday.

Ishmael

Hmm... mathematically should not be true but somehow I believe that.

I proved to myself (but not to anyone important) that the dispatch system does not assign routes based on nearest equipment even though it has GPS tracking and that it was never designed for more than 100.

If the 424 and the 425 show up together thats a 1/50 proposition... if the 423 rolls in next, it just got noteworthy. If the 326 shows up next that means it is only looking at the last two digits and it is mathematically significant. If these patterns show up a few times a day to the operator of the 425, that it lottery-unlikley

Edit:

HA! and dammit with that post I blew through post number 12321 without noticing it! I had planned to leave off there!

 

[Noor]

You and I need to hit Vegas or Atlantic City sometime.

I used to kind of card count (not consciously) in my younger days, but I have pretty much blocked it from my mind. I haven't been asked to leave a casino in decades but I only play roulette or slot machines now.

 

[Noor]

Deciphering the numbers and figuring out what they mean is a very daunting task.

If you have a little kid who sits in front of a static television writing down binary code onto paper while staring at the ceiling with his eyes rolled back and in a trance-like state, then you've got a problem.

Guess who truly enjoyed writing code in binary? This is more of a male trait, most female aspies get bored of 01 fast

 

[GimpyIntellect]

I'm much better at remembering numbers than names.

 

[Ishmael]

Guess who truly enjoyed writing code in binary? This is more of a male trait, most female aspies get board of 01 fast

OK, that's just weird. Octal or hexadecimal yes, binary? No way.

Ishmael

 

[Que]

I shoulda had this thread when my post count was 11,235.

I would consider 12,358 interesting for a similar reason.

Maybe I should come back when my post count is 112,358?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

For example your post count, phone numbers with repeating digits, interesting patterns in the serial numbers on currency?

I am mildly Aspey so I am Rain-man with numbers.

I collect currency with interesting (to me) numbers.

Anyone else do that?

I once spent the better part of the week noting how many views to posts ratios ended in repeating decimals...

 

[Que Va]

I once spent the better part of the week noting how many views to posts ratios ended in repeating decimals...

I would definitely say that qualifies.

At the moment the only number I have my eye on is 99 after my initial one.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

This thread, just now, 216/35=6.1714285714285714285...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I would definitely say that qualifies.

At the moment the only number I have my eye on is 99 after my initial one.

i always had my eye on Agent 99...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Guess who truly enjoyed writing code in binary? This is more of a male trait, most female aspies get board of 01 fast

He was a l00n4t1c...

 

[Que Va]

i always had my eye on Agent 99...

I was a young man working at a big all in one store. Remember Carl Ichan's hostile takeover of TWA? She was a striking flight attendant and got hired to work the desk in the carpet department. Then and now I always preferred long hair, but this girl looked like Barbara Feldon! She was 38, I was 20ish. She found me amusingly naive. I am not sure if I was old enough to order the wine , I wasn't a drinker back then in any case. I still grin a lot about that date.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Missed it by that much...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I never think about numbers, I think patterns and confounded wording.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

216/42=5.142857142857142857...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh shit...



OCD kicking in.

 

[Que Va]

216/42=5.142857142857142857...

How did you happen to be dividing that?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I fairly bad at paying too much attention to numbers and to remembering strange ones, like other peoples' birthday dates and other significant dates of theirs.


What amuses me is how many days I catch myself looking at the clock when it's 2:13PM - the time I was born at.


My dad saw patterns in numbers everywhere, right down to wishing he had been born a month later so the date would make a better numerical progression.

 

[Que Va]

I fairly bad at paying too much attention to numbers and to remembering strange ones, like other peoples' birthday dates and other significant dates of theirs.


What amuses me is how many days I catch myself looking at the clock when it's 2:13PM - the time I was born at.


My dad saw patterns in numbers everywhere, right down to wishing he had been born a month later so the date would make a better numerical progression.

Both parts are me. I cannot remember dates to save my life if it is important. I deliberately got married close to the 4th of July as a memory hook so I wouldn't forget it.

The expiration month and 2 digit year on my debit card are the same as my actual day and month of birth. That is the sort of thing I never forget. Not whether my son was born on the 18th or 19th... I know it was supposed to be the 20th, but not how early he was... dumb stuff.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How did you happen to be dividing that?

I just see the numbers and the OCD kicks in.

I guess that's why I have a degree in numbers, but that's kinda fucked too because I lost interest when the courses began to abandon numbers for fields...



So I chose another, even more OCD field, computer programming.

 

[Que Va]

I just see the numbers and the OCD kicks in.

I guess that's why I have a degree in numbers, but that's kinda fucked too because I lost interest when the courses began to abandon numbers for fields...



So I chose another, even more OCD field, computer programming.

You aspey, at all?