A kind of pattern in random numbers

Take nearly any number with two or more digits and reverse order those digits to create a mirrored number. If those two numbers are subtracted from each other, the result will always be a multiple of three or nine. Also, the result number’s digits will always equal nine when added together (sometimes this step must be repeated once or more until the single digit nine is arrived at). Obviously, any numbers with all like digits are excluded from this as well as those like 141 and 161. A number with any zeros after the first digit like forty would be 40 minus 04 for 36.

A couple of examples,

18, 81 – 18 = 63, 63 ÷ 3 = 21, 63 ÷ 9 = 7, 6 + 3 = 9

1234567, 7654321 – 1234567 = 6419754, 6419754 ÷ 3 = 2139918, 6419754 ÷ 9 = 713306, 6419754 with its digits added together equals 36 which then equals 9

Some recent(ish) quick notepad drawings

From top left to right: random anime girl (I didn’t use the notepad lines as guides… honest), anime mecha, Boba Fett rocking Adidas, Batman – obsessed and methodical, when random anime eyes practice turns into random anime girl, an Angel with her wings folded around her, the Angel Michael with anime / manga high contrast on his face, a young Wolverine working as a bouncer, an Angel

Three interesting number loops with Nikola Tesla’s 3, 6, 9

A relation between Nikola Tesla’s 3, 6 ,9 and the ancient cubit measurement

There’s a neat math that mixes Nikola Tesla’s 3, 6, 9 and the ancient unit of measure – the cubit.

The royal cubit equals 20.64 inches*, and the standard cubit equals 18. 20.64 subtracted from 18 is 2.64. Thinking along the lines of a halfway point, or halfway between the two base numbers, half of 2.64 is 1.32. 1.32 added to 18, or half way between 18 and 20.64, is 19.32. Now you have 18, 19.32, and 20.64. Each of those numbers’ single digits added together give 9, 15, and 12. Do this again with 15 and 12 (in other words keep adding until you’re down to a one digit sum). Now you have 9, 6, and 3. 18, 19.32, and 20.64 are evenly spaced and relative in succession.

The same half way idea applies to 3 through 9 (6 which would make 3 the half point to give 6 – 3, 6, 9).

*I’m using the royal cubit to inches conversion that showed on a quick search. I also saw it as possibly 20.61. Those numbers end up being 9… close enough.

Vortex math with the number 3

If you start with the number 3, then add three threes (3, 3, 3) you get 12 (9 plus 3). From 12 you add 1 and 2 to get another 3. If done again with 12, you get 21 to end up with 3 again. In short, this is infinite – you’ll always end up with two digits added together for 3. I got up to 210 so it seems steady. There’s a possibility that the “adding reduction” must be done an extra time to use double digits to get to 3.

A shortcut is to multiply 9 by any number you can think of and add 3. Here’s a random one – 23,548 times 9 is 211, 932. 211,932 plus 3 is 211,935 to end up with 21.

The beginning 3 and three threes is the more interesting part, I think. Three threes can be seen as Nikola Tesla’s 3 ,6, 9 too, if you add each 3 to the previous number sum in succession.

A vortex math loop with Nikola Tesla’s 3, 6, 9

The first number that 3, 6, and 9 all factor into is 18. If you divide 18 by 3, 6, 9 – the results are 6, 3, 2. If you take these three results as a single three digit number, 632, and divide that again by 3, 6, 9 the results are 210.6, 105.3, and 70.2* (these are rounded to the first decimal number from this same digit repeated many times). Now, add these three numbers together and you get 386.1. Add those single digits for 18, which is the key number that was started with. Finally add 386.1 to 369 for 755.1. Those digits add to together for 18 again. I think this creates a loop using 3, 6, 9 (by ending with the last 369 addition step).

Another way to look at this is to reduce 18 to 9, 1 plus 8. And, that if you continually add 369 to 386.1, each sum will be reducible to 9 – sometimes it’ll be 27 for example. This is infinite. A quick formula for reference is to multiply absolutely any number by 369 and then add that sum to 386.1.

Example: 1234 x 369 = 455,346, 455,346 + 386.1 = 455,732.1 (27)

*These numbers with their digits added together all equal 9.

An example of artistic symmetry in Star Wars: The Force Awakens using the two hexagon structure shapes on the Millennium Falcon

If you draw a line from the right corner of the larger, outer hexagon to the right edge of screen, the length given fits exactly between the left corner of the smaller hexagon to the left edge of screen. The same goes for the bottom of the inner hexagon to the bottom of screen length equals the bottom of larger one to top of screen.

Also, the horizontal X line length equals the vertical Y length line multiplied by two.

Of course, I know that it could be that I just coincidentally paused it there on that specific frame. I just wanted a good shot of the hexagons.

Indiana Jones is a Taoist hero

In all the movies, the character represents someone who embodies some Tao (or Dao) qualities. It’s an Eastern world manner of thinking where, very simply put, it’s better to be in sync with the flow of life. Tao means way as in the way to be is in harmony with the unnamable natural process of things. Indiana continually adjusts or adapts himself to whatever the situation calls for. He never has a true long term plan.

A concept of this is wu-wei. This can be interpreted as action through non-action or to effortlessly react, and in effect appropriately react, to anything. This would be the opposite of taking a contradictory approach to things. Think of an athlete who’s so in tune with what they’re doing, that their actions are effortless. They’re not thinking anymore. Indiana has this quality where he has an immediate, or near immediate, response to anything. Again, he has no plan.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he actually says, “I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go,” when he answers Sallah’s question as to what to do next.

I wonder if George Lucas used these ideas when creating the film / character. It’s something of a consensus that he did use some Eastern philosophy in Star Wars.