yuga, VarNa and colour

[wart]

                                     email: wart at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca


On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jacob Baltuch wrote:

> >Actually the digits of any number that is a multiple of 9 will have a
> >sum of 9 as well.
> 
> Not true: 9 * 11 = 99
> 
> >Since all of the numbers mentioned are products of
> >360, which is 9x40, they will all be multiples of 9.
> 
> A number that has 9 as the sum of its digits will be a multiple of 9
> but it doesn't necessarily go the other way (as the example above shows).
> 
> 
> 
The sums have to be calculated repeatedly until a single digit
results.  That is 9 x 11 = 99. 9 + 9 = 18.  1 + 8 = 9.  I beleive this
was the method originally mentioned in this thread.

David Allen
Edmonton, Canada