“Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.” – Jean Guitton
J.K Rowling added a new number to the world with her Track 9 3/4 to Hogwarts. It's a number Harry Potter fans are not likely to forget. Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, has a wall depicting the fictional track. I wonder how many people have tried walking through the wall. Just for fun, of course. -- Photo by Pat Bean
By the Numbers
Some numbers stick in our brains.
Your birth date for one. December 25 for another, which as a kid takes way too long to come around, but which comes around faster each year once you’re an adult.
Perhaps you believe, because your grandmother said it was so, that seven is lucky and 13 is not.
Telephone numbers used to be important things that clogged up my brain, but cell phones remember them for me these days. I barely can recall my own number.
But I haven’t forgotten the times table I learned in school, all the way up to 12 times 12. Kids these days use calculators instead of brain space to do the math. I guess it’s necessary because of how much more they have to learn.
The exact number of bird species I’ve seen is stored in my little gray cells, while others keep track, to the penny, of the amount they have in their bank accounts. I’m satisfied with a $10 difference in what I think I have and what the bank says I have.
I check the numbers almost daily, however, to make sure my accounts have not been hacked, and to decide if the bottom line number is large enough for another tank of gas for the road.
The most important number currently in my brain, however, is the number of days before my son comes home from Afghanistan. It’s finally down to about 30.
Whats your number?
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” – Plato
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