Alright, conspiracies. Seeing numbers, manipulating numbers, etc to get the patterns you need for your pet theory. Here's a primer for you:
Seven and Thirteen
Seven is lucky, 13 is not (well in western culture anyways). So how is this useful?
- Multiply/divide your number by 7.
- Do the opposite with 13.
- Congrats, you either have a number twice as big, or half as big (use somewhat genrous rounding).
Why? Well the luck of 7 is cancelled out by the bad luck of 13, just like how the multiplication and division signs cancel out.
For some Asian cultures we have the same phenomina with 4 being unlucky and 6 being lucky. This time it's 1.5 time larger or 2/3s the size.
Six and Nine
They are vertical mirror images of each other, go ahead, rotate as needed.
One and Seven
texts get mistranslated all the time, maybe that 1 was a 7, or vice-versa. Or 3 and 8.
Double/Triple Digit Numbers
Yuo can split these apart and the do whatever.
- 14 = 1 + 4
- 295 = 2 x 9 - 5
Factoring
Feel free to partially factor your numbers to get an answer.
- 39 = 3 x 13...three times the bad luck
- 18 = 3 x 6 = 6 + 6 + 6 = 666...Gasp!
Conversions to Random Units
- 1 Kilogram = 2.2 pounds
- 1 Kg = 6.66 thai baht...Gasp!
- 1 Kg = 5000 carats
- 1 Kg = 2000 obolos (ancient greek, bonus conspiracy points)
- 1 Kg = 2.68 Troy pounds
- 1 Kg = 36.65 roman uncia
In parting, I ask you to enjoy XKCD: http://xkcd.com/258