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When I was a kid, classmates talked about a Golden Birthday. When the date, within the month, of birth equals age. Not much fun when the day is the 1st. Nothing for a baby to remember. Philip didn\u2019t care when he turned 16. I guess the window for the thing being cool was by middle school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I re-envisioned my special birthday calculation. When age matches the last two digits of birth year. Today: my birthday this year is age 63 from 1963. Known as the Beddian Birthday. But nobody cares. I\u2019m the weird kid with an attraction for patterns in numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four digit combo for the Goat Yard\u2026 the numbers can be 3 numbers in sequence. 6-7-8. Where is the fourth number? When a 6 is rotated directly on top of another 6, it turns into an 8. Hence, one way to remember 6-7-6-6; it is really a sequence. Nothing to do with sex positions. Just a number pattern and graphic design, sans serif font.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pattern recognition must be hereditary. My dad first tried to get me to remember a phone number by adding different digits within the number. I got a little confused but years later it made a lot of sense suddenly and I\u2019ve been doing it ever since. The only problem is, I can\u2019t do math in my head so if there were any numbers to add, to find a pattern, they had to be super simple number combinations. Ages and years are handy memory keepers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, I don\u2019t think I can get very far memorizing digits of pi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dad was good with math. My brother was a math genius. Bill’s PhD was in topology, basically the math of patterns in shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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