11:11 vs. 1,111
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:10 am
Ok... my first post here. I've been seeing the 11:11 thing since about 1997. I see it on clocks, on receipts, hotel room numbers, etc... and like everyone here, I got the sense it might be some kind of message.
But... there's one thing about the numbers tho that seems to get over looked. Rather than it being the number 1,111 it is instead a set of 11s. The 11th hour and 11th minute, 11 dollars and 11 cents, 11th floor and 11th room, etc...
This changes the odds of it appearing. Instead of the chance of seeing the number 1,111 out of an infinite set of numbers, you are now seeing the odds of seeing two 11s appear at the same time out of a finite set.
So I don't know if there's really something to be made out of all of this.
But... there's one thing about the numbers tho that seems to get over looked. Rather than it being the number 1,111 it is instead a set of 11s. The 11th hour and 11th minute, 11 dollars and 11 cents, 11th floor and 11th room, etc...
This changes the odds of it appearing. Instead of the chance of seeing the number 1,111 out of an infinite set of numbers, you are now seeing the odds of seeing two 11s appear at the same time out of a finite set.
So I don't know if there's really something to be made out of all of this.