Sunday, August 29, 2004

The atomic number of titanium.
The number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
In the Kabbala, the number of paths between the sephiroth.
The number of yards in a chain. A cricket pitch is 22 yards in length.
The narrowest f-stop available in most single-lens reflex cameras.
The number of cards in the Major Arcana of a tarot deck, if you include the fool.
The number of players in a rugby union squad for international and other top-level matches. Seven of the players are "on the bench", ready to play as replacements or substitutes.
- from http://www.fact-index.com/t/tw/twenty_two_1.html

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

On my way to work, I pass a business called Wall to Wall Airconditioning. They have a big sign out the front with a logo which looks like this: W2W.

The letter "W" is of course not really a "double-u" at all, but a "double-V", and as V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet, I always think of it therefore as a "double-22".

So "W2W", to me, reads 22-2-22.

Directly across the road from this sign is a bus-stop. The number of the bus-stop is, you guessed it: 22.

Last week at work, we reached Purchase Order #2222. It was one of mine, so was presented to me to sign before submitting to our supplier. I wondered as I opened the folder how it was going to produce the inevitable 22. There were two items ordered. The first one was ordered in a quantity of 20. The second item was ordered in quantity 2. So there was the 22, the total number of items ordered on our order 2222.