The Number 23After some days without movies, playing Diablo II, here I am again with a movie. This time it was The Number 23, a strange but really interesting movie about obsession on numbers. The idea is simple: look to the world, and find that movie in everything. Like, check your birthday day and month, do some math and fine a way to sum it up to 23. It is just like the game of the 24. I do not know if it is known outside Portugal, but it is usually given to children learning arithmetic. Give them four numbers, and ask a way to compute 24 using those numbers.

The interesting about this movie is that they found a big number of coincidences. For instance, the fact that 2/3 is 0.666(6), and 666 is the number of the Devil. Of course in the movie they forgot it is an infinite sequence of sixes.

But, now the problem is, my birthday is 21 February… should I get worried?…

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