Like many people, I enjoy the number play possible for example with such tools as digital clock times. What I’m realy talking about of course, is play with the numerals 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Usually I add or divide them.

Look at all these nines! If you add them all together you get 27, add those two and you get 9 again. If you add only two nines, you get 18 and if you then add 1 and 8 you get another 9. Nothing magic about it, just a pattern inherent in 9 and its processes.

A couple of years ago I went to the trouble of spreadsheeting every minute in twelve hour. 720 minutes, if you are interested. I found that a full third of these minutes have two numerals that are the same.

The above numeral combination is hardly chance, in other words. But even knowing that hasn’t changed my inclination to get excited over these tiny bits of co-incidence.

One of these days, I’ll record every single time I look at the time and see what I get. It feels like it’ll be 50%.

Do you have a relationship with co-incidences?