06-10-2024, 12:50 PM
(06-10-2024, 11:32 AM)Tas_mania Wrote: That was interesting. It reminded of an old book on numerology I bought at a garage sale by Cheiro. His technique was very simple. His first book only used the day you were born and nothing else. The numbers are from 1 - 9. I guess somebody born on the 22nd would be a 4 and somebody born on the 14th would be a 5. There is descriptions of the numbers here.
I think if you believe in anything like this it starts to materialize in some way. I've noticed there is a big difference between the odd and even numbers. I think the ancient Chinese who wrote the I Ching also knew this.
Some dates are interesting like the 9th of the 9th 1999. Many Chinese go gambling on days like that
When you sum repetitively the digits of a number until you get something between 1 and 9, what you get is the remainder of the division of that number by 9 (or that number modulo 9). This property is the core of "casting out nines". And yes, the "0" being the identity element for the addition, this gives the same result whether you add zeroes to the left of not, so 1/1/2034 and 01/01/2024 yield the sale result, as does 2024/01/01 by the way.
Of course when you says this, numerology is much less fun and looks more like some arbitrary way to assign a pseudo-random number to someone (in fact this is a technique known in computer science has "hashing").