Show ODDITIES OF FIGURE NINE Writer With Spare Time on His Hands Has Discovered Some Really Interesting In- In Interesting In Facts There are some curious facts and fancies connected with numbers The number 9 is perhaps the first as regards regards re reo re- re gards such experiments although number number num num- ber 7 Is more prominent in literature and history When you once use it you cant can't get rid of it it It will turn up again no matter what you do to put it down and out All through the multiplication table tabla tho the product of 9 comes 9 No matter what you OU multiply with or how many times you repeat or change the figures figures figures fig fig- ures the result Is always the same For Instance twice 9 equals 18 add 8 and 1 I and you have 9 Three times 9 equals 27 2 and 7 make 9 again Go on until you try 11 times 9 9 99 This seems to bring an exception But add the digits digits 9 9 and aDd 9 make 18 and again 1 and 8 S make 9 Go on to an Indeterminable extent and the thing continues Take any number at ran ran- dom dome For example times 9 equals and the digits added make 9 once more Take times 9 equals and again you have I 5 and 4 Take any row of or figures reverse reverse the order and subtract the less from the greater the greater the total will certainly always always always al al- al- al ways be 9 or a multiple of 9 For example ex- ex example ex ample take 1705 1705 plus Add these digits and you have 18 an and ana 1 and 8 make familiar 9 You have the same result no o matter matte how you ou raise the numbers by squares and cubes One more way Is given by which number 9 shows Its strange powers Write down any number you please add its digits and then subtract the sum Bum of or said digits from the original number E number Exchange e. e |