11

11 fascinates me lately--at least its multiples. The Lost Chart is 352 pages. By the time I picked it up at the library I had 32 days to read it--11 pages a day. 352: 3 plus 2 equals the 5 in the middle, and 3-2, 32, the time I have to read the book. Great fun until I get to 209. 2 plus 9 does not equal zero, and 29 times 11 does not equal 209. The interruption in the pattern is annoying. At 209 I have to subtract 11 from the sum of the two end numerals to equal the middle numeral. The original pattern resumes with the next multiple, 220, but is interrupted again by the first two multiples over 300, and again by the first three multiples over 400, and so on, until there's only one multiple of 11 betwen 900 and 1000 to which the first pattern applies. Let's not even talk about it after that. Decent number, 11, but it's not up to my standards.