Question: 'I see 22 everywhere. When I look at a sign, paper or clock there's ALWAYS a 22, specially 22:22, that I see everyday. It's not like I'm looking for it, it just pops out in many different situations (addresses, ID numbers, passwords, people I meet). I just opened a new bank account, they gave me the number 7384. My new girlfriend was born in 11/11, I work at the 22º floor, my number in college was 122, my brother´s birthday is 02/02. 22 are the last digits on my speedometer every time I look at it. Also, at every 22 minute point after every hour, I “happen” to catch it (not looking for it either). The 22nd day of february (2/22) was also one of the worst days I have had in a while. I happened to be on a 22 mile drive the other day and we passed a salon called “Salon 22″. One night I had a dream in which God told me to write him a song. I saw big wall in front of me and it had some words on it. When I looked in the sky (it was night) I saw a spaceship and number 22 written by stars. I often have 22 cents come back as my change. I go to the store to buy stuff and it would usually ring up 2.22 or 22.00 dollars. The earliest date that I remember was in 1990. I told my mom that I was going to die on February 22 that year but I didn’t. One time as a medical student while I was walking home from the hospital downtown Toronto I looked up at an L.E.D. sign at 2:22 a.m. which then flashed “Jesus loves you”. That was the first and last time that I had ever seen that on that sign. Last night I was playing poker with some friends, I folded and my friend Caio showed me his hand: 22, and I said: "u know I attract this number, lol". So came the flop: 22Q, and he made a quad. We were astonished. I'm just a regular guy, but I'm very curious (and kinda freaked) about it. What does it mean?' -- anonymous
Answer: Twenty-two is an even composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 11. 22 is the sixth discrete semiprime and the fourth in the (2.q) family. With 21 it forms the second discrete semiprime pair. 22 has an aliquot sum of 14 and is the fifth composite number found in the 7-aliquot tree. It has a 7- member aliquot sequence 22, 14, 10, 8, 7, 1, 0 of which the next two members are themselves discrete semiprimes, 22 is the first discrete semiprime exhibiting this property. 169 also has 14 as its aliquot sum. 22 is itself the aliquot sum of two numbers 20, 38. It is also a pentagonal number and a centered heptagonal number. When cutting a circle with just six line segments, the maximum number of pieces that can be so created is 22, thus 22 is a central polygonal number (see lazy caterer's sequence). The sum of the totient function for the first eight integers is 22. 22 is a Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 10, 12, 17. 22 divided by 7 approximates the irrational number π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Since it is possible to find sequences of 22 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member, 22 is an Erdős–Woods number.
Answer: In numerology, the number 22 is considered perhaps the most talented and the most successful of all the numbers. The number twenty-two seeks to help others in any way they possibly can. They do this only with strong intuitive abilities, but also through natural leadership skill. The number twenty-two seeks to brings balance and harmony into the lives of everyone and will work hard in order to make it happen. The number 22 is a master number; therefore it carries with it the extreme sensitivity that all master numbers share. The number 22 would do best seeking out those that can understand their special gifts and their unique vision and that will be there to follow their lead and support them every step of the way. Like all master numbers, the sensitivity that the number 22 has is a double-edged sword. The sensitivity can provide phenomenal intuitive help, but it can also give way to sensory overload. That sensory overload then can lead to an unbalanced life and, in worse case scenarios, illness or disease. Control can be a real issue for the number 22. Many times the people born into the twenty-two life path will seek to have control over all aspects of life. This can both drive people away and cause others to want to manipulate them.
* 22 is a Schröder Number.
* 22 is a Centered Heptagonal Number.
* 22 is a Hexagonal Pyramidal Number.
* 22 is a Pentagonal Number.
* 8 can be Partitioned in 22 ways.
* 22 can be Partitioned in 1002 ways.
* 22 is the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum of two primes in three ways.
* 22 is the maximal number of regions into which 6 lines divide a plane.
* The sum of the totient function for the first eight integers is 22.
* The Chemical Element Titanium has an atomic number of 22.
* The maximal number of regions into which a plane can be divided by 5 circles=22
* The Human head is constituted of 22 bones: 8 for the cranium and 14 for the face.
* The 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot: The Fool, Magician, Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Fortune, Justice, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Blasted Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Judgement and World.
* The twenty-two channels linking the ten "Sephiroth" between them in the "sephirotic Tree" of the Kabbalah.
* The Word of God is at the 22th level of conscience.
* There are 22 chapters of the Revelation of John in the Bible.
* There are 22 verses in Surah "Al Burooj"(The Zodiac, or Constellations), in the Quran.
* Death Metal band Hypocrisy's album Catch 22 was released in year 2002.
* On October "11," 2001, President Bush released the photographs of the "22 Most Wanted Terrorists," and in his speech he stated, "....these 22 terrorists hide in the darkness, but we are exposing them with the “light of justice"...."
* According to S. Doucet and J.-P. Larosee, the man is composed twenty-two evolutionary bodies gathered in four categories: subtle body, energy body, galactic body and temporal body.
* Several old alphabets had twenty-two letters: Chaldean, Sabean, Roman, Copt and Hebraic.
* According to Bambaras, the totality of mystical knowledge is contained in the symbols of the first twenty-two numbers.
* According to Jainism: the 22 kinds of suffering.
* In the divinatory tarot, there are 22 major arcana cards. These cards are numbered 0-21, so it is a matter of interpretation whether The Fool or The World is card number 22.
* George Washington was born on February 22.
* On the TV show Most Evil, a forensic psychiatrist scales from 1 to 22, and this is how evilness is mentally evaluated.
* In bingo, 22 is referred to as 'Two Little Ducks'
* In rugby union, the "22" is a the line in each half of the field which is 22 metres from the respective try line.
* 22 is the number of players on the field in a Football (soccer) match, and also the number of players on the field at any one time in an American football match.
* The jersey number 22 has been retired by several North American sports teams in honor of past playing greats.
* The length of a cricket pitch is 22 yards.
* In Australian rules football there are 22 players on each team, comprising a starting 18, and 4 bench players.
* "22" is a common name for the .22 calibre .22 Long Rifle cartridge.
* In Jay-Z's song "22 Two's", he rhymes the words: too, to and two, 22 times in the first verse.
* Lily Allen has a song titled "22" from her album It's Not Me, It's You.
* Paul Weller has a song and album named 22 Dreams. The album contains 22 songs.
* The Norwegian electronica project Ugress uses 22 as a recurring theme.
* Catch-22 is a 1961 novel by Joseph Heller.
* Twenty-Two, Season 2–episode 17 (February 10, 1961) of the 1959-64 TV series The Twilight Zone in which a hospitalized dancer has nightmares about a sinister nurse inviting her to Room 22, the hospital morgue.
* The typical (minimum) number of episodes in a season for a television program broadcast on a major American network is 22.
* There are 22 stars in the Paramount Films logo.
* The typical length of a half hour sitcom not including commercials is 22 minutes.
* f/22 is the largest f-stop (and thus smallest aperture) available on most lenses made for single-lens reflex cameras.
* In French, "22" is used as a phrase to warn of the coming of the police (typically "22, v'là les flics !", "22, here come the cops!")
* The Titanic was traveling at a speed of 22 knots before it crashed into an iceberg.
* President John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963.
* The minute hand on a clock when positioned at 22 minutes after the hour creates an angle with the top of the clock of exactly 132 degrees. 6×22=132.
* The back of the 100 dollar bill shows an image of Independence Hall. The Independence Hall clock-time is stopped at exactly 2:22.
* After 3.5 years of seige at Gaza the Raffa crossing was fully opened by Egypt after a peoples revolt. The date was 2/22/11.
* Abercrombie & Fitch says its chain of Hollister stores owns the number 22. The New Albany-based company has sued rival retailer American Eagle Outfitters, seeking to prevent it from using the number on its clothing. The lawsuit filed in Columbus federal court asks a judge to order American Eagle to stop using 22 on its clothing and advertising, to destroy any clothes or ads that use the number and to give Hollister any profits from clothes already sold. Abercrombie says Hollister owns the number 22 because it has appeared on the chain's clothing since the stores opened three years ago.
* Iron Maiden has a song named "22 Acacia Avenue".
* A quotation mark (in a URL it appears as a "%22").
* The number of total stars of which compose the constellation Little Bear is 22. However, only seven of them are visible to the naked eye.
* Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton had 22 debates during the last Presidential election.
* The number 22 on the Wyoming License plate stands for the county of Teton.
* Amoxicillin (875 mg) is a white oblong pill with the number 22 stamped in it which is used to treat bacterial infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.
* Baclofen (10 mg) is a small white, oblong pill with a V on one side and 22 over 66 on the other side.
* Gabapentin (800 mg) is a white oblong pill with the number 22 stamped in one side that was originally developed for the treatment of epilepsy, and is currently widely used to relieve neuropathic pain.
* Insult comedian Jack E. Leonard, on his numerous television game show appearances, answered with "22" to any question requiring a numerical response.
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you again for the great, great weekend. It's really true that you feel Antonioni slipping away in 'BtC'. I guess that could have quite interesting and moving if you didn't feel Wenders slipping in at the same time. I've never seen 'Identification of a Woman'. I guess I've been nervous about it. But with your recommendation, I'll catch up with it. ** David, Hey. Thanks a lot about the 'sets' day. I hope you're feeling a lot better. ** Bernard Welt, You probably know this, but wow is mom upside down. ** Sypha, Hey. Ha ha, given what (fairly little) I know about Ligotti, it makes a weird sense that he'd be into prog rock somehow. I would say he's wishing for the sardonic in the case of those lyrics, but only Peter Sinfield knows for sure, I guess. ** Paul, Hey. Oh, wait, Paul Cunningham. That's interesting or something because I just read your ebook 'Metro Goldwyn Mayer' like a week ago, and I really liked it. 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I didn't get a binge, but I think a binge right now would be unnatural. So it's okay. Oh, yeah, not such a great day you had there. Pillows can be very benevolent. Was yours? I bet you have a fluffy one. Just a guess. Mine's in between flat and substantial. It's versatile. Any enlightenment on the Belew front would be most welcome, of course, but it's not a rush job, so, you know, just be yourself and live the life you want. That's the important thing. ** L@rstonovich, Hey. Blake Butler and Justin Taylor are reading at Powells. Soon, I think. Very soon. You should go see them maybe? Plus, they're cool guys, obviously. I'm glad I got to see SkullHum TV too. Very glad. Man, that's a seriously nice LP haul there. All the Sparks records? I mean, that would be, like, 24 albums or something. Thanks a lot about the 'TIHYWD' trailer thing. I wish you could see the thing itself. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hey, winner! Your 'J/TTT' will be winging its way to you today if I can find an envelope somewhere in this messy room that I live in. Mm, I would steer clear of 'Beyond the Clouds'. The feeling it produced was neither pleasant nor interesting. I do like me some 'Rose King'. Its over-the-topness is one of his best successes in that regard, I think. ** Chris Cochrane, Hey. Sure, sure, whatever from my archives or anything, no problem. I'm assuming they'll approve it. It seems like they approve pretty much everything. Well, yeah, I'll listen to it in Utrecht, of course. One, I want to very much, and, two, having been in Utrecht, there's not a whole lot to do there, frankly. ** Andrew, Hi, Andrew! Yeah, you've been away. I've been wondering where you were and how you are and all that. I haven't seen 'Oddities'. It sounds totally like something I want to watch. It reminds me of ... I forget the name. A TV show that used to be on SciFi about this shop whose owner and employees tracked down dangerous, magic antiques and things in the world every week. Cool about getting into the college. It might be worth the student loans repayment stuff. Most of my friends have been paying off or avoiding or not paying off student loan debt for years, and they seem fairly content and sane. ** Misanthrope, Whenever I see a link with NPH in it, it means No Push Here, ha ha ha, ahem. Oh, I remember about that boy whom you said died. That's really sad. Watching that production would have been very melancholy. I don't know if you saw the 'West Side Story' movie, but the dancing in it wasn't exactly macho either. They tried, though. Of course, an effeminate street gang sounds hot to me. BoyCrush should get on that. You sent me that story? Cool. I'll look at my mail. Yeah, I do not get why corporations don't pay taxes. At all. That is one sick fact. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Someday, when the spiders take over the world, they're going to try all of us on charges of genocide in the spider community's equivalent of the Hague and we're all going to be so fucked. I'm glad you liked 'Gospel of Anarchy'. Me too, as you know. I wonder if Justin still reads this blog and saw your review and smiled. I don't think he does, though. That image of you loading your uncle's tools in his truck was a really new and different way to think about you. I don't know why. That was interesting. Yes, that song you linked me to was much more pleasurable than the ATeens one, even if I did enjoy the ATeens song and video in that weird way I mentioned. Thank you. I've never read that Jim Thompson novel. I like his stuff. Hm, I'll note that one down in case I see it here somewhere. I liked your days report. It was nice, actually. Mine: Hm. I think on Saturday I just worked a lot on emails and the blog and some writing and stuff like that. I know I must have gone shopping because it was Saturday and I needed food for Sunday. Gosh, Saturday is mostly a blank now. Weird. On Sunday, I did more of the above (blog, email, writing). I met up with Gisele at Point Ephemere just up the canal because she wanted advice about what to show in her upcoming gallery exhbition. The weather was really great, and there were lots of people hanging out along the canal's banks sunning and stuff. Gisele was late, so I waited for her outside PE smoking. I noticed that Oneohtrix Point Never is playing there next week, and I decided I would see that. And maybe see Gold Panda, who are playing there soon too. Gisele showed up, and we got coffees at PE's cafe and went into her studio and picked out the photos for the show and figured out how they should be installed. She said the gallery wants me to do a reading at the opening, but I said no to that. All that took about three hours 'cos we also talked about stuff too. Mostly about the maze piece. That isn't very interesting. But then I walked back here and worked and stuff. I ate. I watched a TV show about Naples, Italy and what a crime ridden total mess it is, and I felt glad that Yury and I didn't go there on our trip. I found out that there's a special French Top Chef show tonight where the winners of the first and second seasons will square off, and of course I decided to watch it. Oh, man, that was boring, sorry. I guess my weekend was sort of a wash that I will stop belaboring now. Now it's today finally. How was yours? ** Schlix, Hi, Ui. Man, sorry about Blogger's cruel hunger. I wish I could fix that. You good? ** Tender prey, Hey. No, the porn set art photos were the ones where there's nobody there, just the set. I still can't remember the artist. I think it's a her. Thanks for the Berlin gallery link. I'll go have a look at it. I hope you guys are getting this amazing summery weather we're getting. It's just like honey. ** Chris (British), That does sound nice. The tattoo, but also the five star Fiji joint, naturally. Take pictures, yeah. Of that tattoo and, heck, of the five star Fiji joint too 'cos why not? I'm pretty light on the Facebook usage and visiting except when I'm in a certain mood that I can't define. I don't feel its pull that much. I'm not sure why. Hm. ** Okay. I probably should have made today's post a contest and given a prize to the 22nd commenter, but I don't have a prize handy. So, it'll have to stand on its own. Which is okay, right? Hope so. Bye until tomorrow.
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