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Pony: Nine things about the number nine
2.6.2008
Happyrobot turned nine years old this week, and in its honour, we are all writing a little something about nine.
A randomly chosen irrational number
Number 762nd the sequence following the decimal point in Pi, six nines occur. 999999 - Here's how that looks. It is called the "Feynman Point", named after a physicist. The probability of six 9s occurring this early in the decimal representation is only 0.08%
Nine Inch Nails
When I used to go dancing and their song "I wanna f---- you like an animal" came one, for some reason I felt kind of embarassed - frozen in the limbo state between irony and sincerity - and I used to leave the dance floor to get a drink. I didn't mind the song, but I didn't want to false advertise, either.
Rocket Richard
When I first started dating Kiff, he told me he was distantly related to #9-'ockey sweater legend Maurice Richard. Although no family member has confirmed this, I am still smug in the knowledge that I may have passed on the genes of a hockey great.
Nine sides
A nine-sided shape is commonly called a Nonagon, which sounds like it should have no sides at all.
Number nine, number nine
There is this whole site on the interweb that connects the life of John Lennon to the number nine
Social Insurance Numbers are nine digits long in Canada, but if you have a SIN # beginning with the #9, you are not a citizen or permanent resident.
Nine months
The obvious one - it classically takes nine months to properly make a baby. The first three months, you build them, the last six months, you bake them. As we speak, my friend Amy is getting ready to push out her baby, nine months plus one week along.
Chinese Astrology - I lifted this verbatim from wikipedia
Nine is strongly associated with the Chinese dragon, a symbol of magic and power. There are nine forms of the dragon, it is described in terms of nine attributes, and it has nine children It has 9×13 scales, 9×9 being yang (masculine, or bad influence) and 9×4 being yin (feminine, or good influence).[2] The dragon often symbolizes the Emperor, and the number nine can be found in many ornaments in the Forbidden City.
Tomorrow I will write about a different number, known as 35.
