I was quite pleased to have gotten an 11 for my personal number... until I noticed that 9+9=18, meaning there is no combination that will result in 22, meaning I am probably doing it wrong. If you are so kind, JMG, could we work out a little example?
Let's go ahead with CARLOS, my first name: What I did was to add up pairs of letters, then add directly the three pairs -> (3+1 + 9+3 + 6+1) -> (4 + 12 + 7) -> (4+3+7) -> (14) -> 5. But then, the obvious alternative is to add every letter together, then start cracking down the number -> (3+1 + 9+3 + 6+1) -> (4 + 12 + 7) -> (16+7) -> (23) -> (2+3) -> 5. In both cases we end up in five, but with the first algorithm I never got anything above fourteen, while with the second I managed to jump into the twenties.
Now that I think about it, numbers well above 33 are not nearly as difficult to get once you put together a middle and a last name.
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branchandroot
Is there a proper way to add up the numbers?
Date: 2022-01-02 06:02 pm (UTC)Let's go ahead with CARLOS, my first name: What I did was to add up pairs of letters, then add directly the three pairs -> (3+1 + 9+3 + 6+1) -> (4 + 12 + 7) -> (4+3+7) -> (14) -> 5. But then, the obvious alternative is to add every letter together, then start cracking down the number -> (3+1 + 9+3 + 6+1) -> (4 + 12 + 7) -> (16+7) -> (23) -> (2+3) -> 5. In both cases we end up in five, but with the first algorithm I never got anything above fourteen, while with the second I managed to jump into the twenties.
Now that I think about it, numbers well above 33 are not nearly as difficult to get once you put together a middle and a last name.