Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1871 — An Accommodating Number. [ARTICLE]

An Accommodating Number.

The number 37 lias this strange property, that if multiplied by 3 or any multiple of 3up as high as 27, it will give in the product three figures exactly alike, and the sum of these figures, if added together, will be found to be the number by which it was multiplied. Thus : 37 multiplied by 8 gives 111, and Bxl= 3 37 do 6 “ 222, “ 3x»= 8 87 do 9 “ 333, “ Bxß= 9 37 do 19 “ 414, “ 8x4=19 87 do 15 “ 555. “ 8x5=15 37 do 18 " 666, “ Bx6=lß 87 do 21 “ 777, “ 3x7=91 87 do 2-1 '* 888, “ 3x8=24 CT do 27 " 999, 3x9=97 ■ If you remember this it will help you a little In doing your “sums.” When yon have 37 to multiply by 3 or any multiple of it as high as 27, you have only to multiply the first figure and you may be sure the other results will be just like the first.