Do you notice numbers?

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.

My birthdate in the usual d/m/y year format (sans zeros) is the exact match to the year of my birth because I was born on Jan 9...

;)
 
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.


Oh, I used to rock with phone numbers, but cell phones have made that all go away. I doubt I can recall 6 numbers I use frequently. I can still remember every phone number I have ever had since I was 7, though.


I also rock with my debit card numbers - account, expiration, and security code. Just use it a few times and it goes in.


I do cheat and use Junior's birthday for my pin.
 
The film Pi, by Darren Aronofsky, is a fun and at times brilliant riff on these kind of patterns. Well worth seeing, and a killer soundtrack.

My favourite numbers story concerns the ludicrously clever self-taught Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Well known to most, I'm sure, but perhaps not all.
From Wikipedia:

1729 is known as the Hardy–Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a visit to the hospital to see the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words:
“ I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

Oh, to have that kind of mind...
 
42 to IS the answer to every known problem in the universe!
 
Sometimes when dates are sequential like 10/11/12. Nothing outside of that though.
 
I add up phone numbers every time I see one.
Can't remember a single one but can tell you what all the numbers add up to in a second.
 
Yes, I notice numbers, well, because they are all over the fuck place, you know speed limits, telephone numbers, addresses, thank god otherwise I'd really be fucking lost, yet, some are distinct, say like you drivers license, all of those digits actually mean something, at least around here the do.
 
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?

No, but I have my own Aspey traits. For instance, if I twirl 6 times in one direction, I have to twirl 6 times in the opposite direction or I feel off, like an overwound spring on an old-fashioned watch.

I guess there are numbers involved there, in a peripheral sort of way.
 
No, but I have my own Aspey traits. For instance, if I twirl 6 times in one direction, I have to twirl 6 times in the opposite direction or I feel off, like an overwound spring on an old-fashioned watch.

That's OCD.
 
I remember every phone no I've ever had.
I also know my ss no, my tax file no, my dl no, my medicare no, my hosp ref no, my child support ref no...... you get the idea.

But tell me your name when we meet and it flies straight out of my head. I'm shocking with names.

People should have numbers, not names!
 
I'll remember your birthday and face long before I'll remember your name.


:(
 
489/70=6.985714285714285714285...


:p :D :D

3.1415926535897932384626 4338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640
3.96 433832795 0 28841971693993751 0 582 0 9749445923 0 78164 0
3.92795
3.5 0 4693993751 0
or
3.9693993751 0
or
3.693993751 0
so:
3.7 0 582 0 9749445923 0 78164 0
3.4 0 9749445923 0 78164 0
3.69445923 0 78164 0
3.6 0 78164 0
3.5 0
or
3.5 2 2 6 2 8
3.9 6 2 8
3.8 8
3.7
10
or
10/21
.4761904
.9 0 4
.4

...maybe
 
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 remember numbers
way too many
 
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