06/24/24...
I wrote the date into my journal...
Oh wow. That equals 666.
Ha. I wonder if others notice that.
Surely some do.
Thereafter, I habitually began adding up the month + day + year for each date.
As I tallied the days in my journal, a pattern emerged.
When I add together 6 + 6 + 6 (derived from 06/24/24), the sum equals 18; 8 + 1 = 9.
Once a day reaches the reduction sum of 9, the pattern begins again the next day with the reduction sum of 1.
The next day after 6/24/24 is 06/25/24 = 6 + 7 + 6 = 19; 1 + 9 = 10; 1 + 0 = 1; a sum of 1.
This continues -- each reduction sum of the following day increases by 1 until it reaches 9 and then starts over again with 1.
There is also a pattern that appears from the first day of a month to the first day of the following month, and there is a year-to-year pattern.
I have not yet found a pattern from the last day of a month to the last day of subsequent months.
"Huh?" a reader might ask.
Here's an example of the monthly pattern:
1/01/23 = 7.
2/01/23 = 8.
3/01/23 = 9.
4/01/23 = 1.
And the pattern continues until we reach a sum of 9 (again), and the pattern starts over with 1.
Here's an example of the yearly pattern:
1/01/23 = 7.
1/01/24 = 8.
1/01/25 = 9.
1/01/26 = 10 = 1.
And the pattern continues until we reach a sum of 9 (again), and the pattern starts over with 1.
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One morning a few months after discovering these patterns, I was listening to a guided mediation that uses Solfeggio sounds.
Curious, I looked up Solfeggio frequencies and came across an article about their possible origin/discovery.
The article mentioned the Pythagorean theory of reduction. My soul lit up!
Oh! There's a name for this [this reduction of numbers]! All the way back to Pythagoras!
(I'm a mathematician and didn't know it. Ha.)
I've been intrigued with the numeral 9 for decades.
I enjoy playing Sudoku, usually based on the number 9.
But what I really like is the practice of "nine overs," also called "casting out nines," which is an old-school method for checking addition.
And I discovered casting out nines provides a short cut to the reduction method I was using for dates.
Example:
7/17/24. I can add it up long hand (so to speak), such as 7 + 17 + 24 = 48 = 12 = 3.
7/17/24. I can add it up short hand (so to speak), such as 7 + 8 + 6 = 21 = 3.
7/17/24. I can cast out nines. 7 + 2 = 9. That leaves 7 + 1 + 4 = 12 = 3.
What difference does it make, Carol?
None. "Difference" is a result in subtraction, not addition. Haha.
But seriously, what difference does it make?
What is the point?
Why does there have to be a point, other than I enjoy it?
Ha, maybe that is the point.
Yet, the myth part of me wants to believe there's more to it.
For one, patterns are all around us.
I've read we are pattern-seeking creatures.
Maybe all creatures seek patterns.
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I also tried the above with full dates, such as...
7/17/2024 = 41 = 5.
7/18/2024 = 52 = 6.
Though the sum is different (obviously by 2 because of the extra "20" which. when reduced, equals 2), the pattern continues.
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Here's an example of using "nine overs" to check addition...
I chose the addends at random...
714 = 12 = 3
+ 634 =13 = 4
+8256 = 21 = 3
10 = 1
9604 = 19 =10 =1
First you add up the three numbers which equal 9604.
Next you add up horizontally each line of the addition problem (each addend), and add again if necessary, until the sum is reduced to one digit.
Then add up vertically those sums and reduce their sum to one digit.
Add up the original sum (in this case that equals 9604) horizontally and reduce that sum to one digit.
If you have added correctly, the reduction sums will be the same (as shown in the example above).
Ain't that cool!?!?
But it's not foolproof; if numbers are accidentally inverted, it doesn't work.
Such as, if I accidentally wrote 9406 instead of the correct sum 9604, the reduction would still equal 1. But 9406 is incorrect. Thus, not foolproof.
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NUMBEROCK with Skip Counting by Nine Song
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I also thought of The Beatles song, Revolution 9 from The White Album which I owned as a teenager.
Here's some tidbits about the significance of The Beatles and the number 9: The Beatles and the story behind Number 9.
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