47+25 = 72

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Canvas on stretcher, 60х30 cm (23.6” x 11.8”)

Oil

Kyiv, 2014

 

 

There is an old belief that some mysterious connection exists between the numbers and the circumstances of human life. “Favourable” license plates numbers are the case. Though a car is a condensed form of technical advance of human civilization and mass production, such belief is still here .

One of the most simple way of manipulations with a four-digit license plate is to sum up its right and left side. If the result is “100” (like with such plates as “4753”, “2179”, etc.), one might get a strange confidence in the favorability of having possessed such plate or even of just having seen this combination of symbols. This is quite common “mind game”.

But there are also more sophisticated techniques. The number “4725” is a good example. There is no “100” in its sum, because 47 +25 = 72. But there is another interesting fact: “72” can be read in the middle part of the plate. 7 plus 2 makes 9.  Further, the sum of all of the digits is 4 +5 +7 +2 = 18 , and if we add “1” and “8” we get “9” again. Besides, “4+5” also makes “9”. The digit “9” peers out of the plate  “4725” all the time, whatever math you do.

“9” in the East symbolizes health and long life. Therefore, the number “4725” can be generally considered as quite “good”.

There are many four-digit car plates similar to 4752 – the sum of the left and right digits can be read as two-digit number in the middle. For example  “5934” (59 +34 = 93), “2637” (26 +37 = 63), “4835” (48 +35 = 83), etc. It is interesting that there are 54 such combinations, and, as we know, 5 +4 = 9. “Nine” again .

 

However, there are only five among them abundant in “9”s. Here they are:

 

0549   (05+49=54    0+5+4+9=18   1+8=9   0+9=9     5+4=9)

2637   (26+37=63    2+6+3+7=18   1+8=9   2+7=9     6+3=9)

4725   (47+25=72    4+7+2+5=18   1+8=9   4+5=9     7+2=9)

6813   (68+13=81    6+8+1+3=18   1+8=9   6+3=9     8+1=9)

8901   (89+01=90    8+9+0+1=18   1+8=9   8+1=9     9+0=9)

It is easy to see that the middle pair of digits, which is the sum of the lef and right halves of, is divisible by “9”. Thus, we have only five four-digit numbers “full of 9s”, or, full of health and longevity. Five four-digit numbers.  5+4=9. Again 9...