Numbers in my eyes
I like the numbers
game, the order of numbers, the mystery of numbers, the codes in numbers, the
recall of numbers and puzzles based on numbers. One of the first things I
learnt about numbers was how to determine a number was divisible by 3, as long as
the numbers each when added up was a multiple of 3, it was divisible by 3, from
that I could determine those divisible by 6 or 9.
Then every time I see a number I am doing a mental exercise in the realm of 3s and other multiples
of the same besides trying to find numerical mnemonics that would help me
remember long numbers, telephone numbers, dates, and other associations.
Puzzled by numbers
However, the numbers
puzzle that most interests me is Sudoku,
and whilst I don’t play it that often, I have had a few apps on my mobile phone
to engage me in idle times to engage my mind to find the arrangement and order
to complete the puzzle, sometimes to best my times, but mostly never to place a
number in error through the process.
The easy puzzles are
boring, I find no pleasure in them, sometimes the easier ones exhaust too much
mental energy, whereas the fiendish and complex ones where sometimes you are taxed
and almost frustrated as the minutes tick away until there is a breakthrough,
what you have been staring at for long suddenly comes into the focus leading to
the solution and satisfaction of personal triumph.
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