It's my first post in quite some time. Maybe I'll do a little better this time around with another weird numerical observation...
So I went to the Duncanville-Cedar Hill football game this past Friday. Both teams have a place in my heart as I currently work at DHS and I spent 7 years in CH. The Longhorns won 44-27 as they stopped a late comeback by the Panthers.
I'm driving home last night and realized something.... When you add the digits in Friday's score (4 + 4 + 2 + 7), you get 17, which is equal to the deficit the Panthers had at the end of the game. I then tried other scores near to this one:
45-27 gives us 4 + 5 + 2 + 7 = 18
46-27 gives us 4 + 6 + 2 + 7 = 19
41-27 gives us 4 + 1 + 2 + 7 = 14
Notice that my scores all had 27 as the losing score and had a number in the 40s as the winning score. This works for all of them!
But how about this: what if 18 was the losing the score? What would all the inning scores have to be for this to work? The 30s!
33-18 gives us 3 + 3 + 1 + 8 = 15, which matches the deficit of the score!
How about 36? 45? Does 9 work?
Yes they do! It's amazing how much multiples of 9 play an important part in number thinking.
So next time somebody asks you for a score and they tell you that the losing score is a multiple of 9, share this with them!
And tell them Swish sent you as a winner!
