license plate digits
I have to read the license plate of every passing car and add up any digits to see if they add to an even number, or a number divisible by 10. If they are I feel like I’ve won a prize.
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wow, this can actually be a hazard to yourself and other drivers if it distracts you from the road
Mine is almost exactly the same, except I only try to get numbers divisible by 10. I never thought anyone else would ever have the same neurosis.
I do the same thing, but with nines. If a number is divisible by nine, I get excited.
If it doesn’t add up to nine, I find some sort of equation within the numbers to try and force the numbers to add up to nine or, at the very least, a multiple of three. Sometimes it takes a long, long time to figure out how to make the numbers work for me.
Everybody does it, but in their own way. I used to think that there is something odd with a number 138, because it is so wildly used in the movies and popular culture. So I used to look for it on every place. Than I saw that movie P, and in it a mathematician sad that if you look for a specific number you will find it everywhere, because it is a number made from nine numbers.
My method is with multiples of three. If the numbers don’t add up to a multiple of three, I use different functions between each digit until I can find a way to make it work.
mine is the numbers must equal 10 in some way….any way possible…and when I learn n^0 = 1….the possibilities were endless…
My ‘weird’ thing when I was a kid with licence plates was the say whatever nonsensical word the licence letters made up, as many times as the numbers on the licence plate. The licence plates in Australia are (for example) 283-GAT so I would have to say GAT in my head 283 times.
I usually look for the number 23.
I add them up and reduce them to single digits, hoping to get the number 8.