Love Potion Number Nine

There’s something magical about the counting numbers, 1,2,3,5…

They are whole numbers and almost seem natural to us.  Did you ever notice almost everything we enumerate are whole numbers.  You never see sports jerseys with numbers such as 3.2, 9.8,  4 and one fourth, 50% or the square root of sixteen.  My favorite sport jersey numbers are three (Anthony Paultanis), six (Al Kaline) and nine (Gordie Howe).

The barcodes (UPC or Universal Product Code) you see on almost every product you can buy at a store are whole numbers.  Vehicle license plates displayed on the back of cars and your social security numbers are whole numbers.  Home addresses and locker numbers in school are whole numbers.

The last single digit counting number is nine.  Nine is a composite number with factors of three.  The divisibility rule for nine is similar to three.  Add the digits of the number and if it is divisible by nine the entire number is divisible by nine.

In the very olden days, “Love potion number nine” by the searchers was a hit posted by barbieaslenkho. 

I think the greatest athlete to wear the number nine on a sports jersey was Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team.  Nicked named “Popeye” by his teams mates for his muscular build, he went on to play for other hockey expansion teams in Houston and Hartford.  He played hockey with his sons and retired from professional hockey at the age of fifty-two.  I watched Gordie Howe in many games.  When he took a hit from someone, he didn’t retaliate right away.  He would “take your number” and cream that player later in the game.  When he went into the hospital for minor surgery, everyone in the National Hockey League thought he was going in to get his elbows sharpened.  A video posted by NYIandersFan21.