I have a new cell phone and number, and as usual it's never on unless I've told you it's on, so it's not on now, and you can feel free to practice dialing my new number and it won't annoy me at all.
Because, just like the previous two phones, I have no plans to work out how to retrieve voice-mail or to use texting.
And I'm paying by the minute, so when I call you, which will happen occasionally, as soon as you recognize it's me, feel free to yell "No!" or "Yes!" and then hang up; that way we'll have more money left to spend on food.
* How to remember the number?
Well, I decided to make it easy for you and I picked a number that is dead-easy to remember.
You already know that a telephone number consists of 3 parts, and 3 is the key to my number.
Of course, the first digits are obvious - the area code for Toronto cell phones "647".
It will not escape your notice that there are 3 digits in the area code.
(Also that not one of the multi-digit combinations is evenly divisible by 3)
The 2nd set of 3 digits is the smallest interesting cube, that is, think of "2 raised to the power 3" and you'll get "238"
It will not escape your notice that the sum of those 3 digits is 13 (2+3+8).
Which is why the final digit string is 1369.
13 multiplied by 3 is 69.
How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
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How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
I delve into numerology (I think it's called ...)
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Re: How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
I'd very much like to see a proof of this,13 multiplied by 3 is 69.
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Re: How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
1 times 3 = 3
3 times 3 = 9
So 1 3 times 3 is 6 9.
Sorry, that was nonsense.
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Don, I have to apologize. Instead of replying to your post, I edited it. You wrote, quite rightly, that it should have been
1 3 times 3 is 3 9
I made a stupid mistake.
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1 3 times 3 is 3 9
I made a stupid mistake.
HansV
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Hans is almost correct.Don Wells wrote:I'd very much like to see a proof of this,13 multiplied by 3 is 69.
I forgot to add 3 to the 1st of 3 digits.
Roughly speaking:
1 times 3 plus 3 = 6
3 times 3 = 9
So 1 3 times 3 is 6 9
Anyway, all that really matters is that my friends understand me ... (grin!)
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Because, since childhood, I've always found it easier to remember that 3x13 is 69 rather than 39.Don Wells wrote:Why not:
1 3 times 3 is 3 9 ?
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It is interesting that for the first several readings I accepted "13 times 3 is 69." I suspect that this was because I intuitively recognized the square of 13 as 169.
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Thanks, Don.Don Wells wrote:It is interesting that for the first several readings I accepted "13 times 3 is 69." I suspect that this was because I intuitively recognized the square of 13 as 169.
Perhaps I'm not so childish after all; I'm just senile ...
I really think the same thing happened to me last night - I was already thinking "powers" as in "2 to the power 3 is 8", and I suspect that "13" fired up a few synapses hard-wired to 169 - as happened with you.
What worries me now is that not one of my 13 cell-phone contacts, to whom I sent the BCC email last night, have commented on my lousy math.
Maybe they already know how I hate admitting that I've made a mistake ...
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Re: How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
LOL i can probably call this number right now since I live in toronto too haha
I don't have one
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Our Trained Staff Are Waiting for Your Callkpark91 wrote:LOL i can probably call this number right now since I live in Toronto too haha
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Re: How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
Surely the correct answer is "You don't need to bother, because you will never ring it..."?ChrisGreaves wrote:How do YOU remember your new mobile phone number?
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Closer than you think. I rarely carry it with me (twice a month?), and even then have it turned on only until I've established contact with whoever I'm supposed to meet.John Gray wrote:Surely the correct answer is "You don't need to bother, because you will never ring it..."?ChrisGreaves wrote:How do YOU remember your new mobile phone number?
A natural consequence of this is that it's as if I didn't have a cell phone; I'm rarely offering the number to people and so, in general, am unaware of my own phone, let alone its number.
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Re: How do YOU remember your new cell phone number?
I regularly have to ring my own mobile phone, it's the only way to find the ***** thing when it has slipped down the back of a sofa.John Gray wrote:Surely the correct answer is "You don't need to bother, because you will never ring it..."?
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