The Story Of My Granddaughter Maddie’s Birthday.

Robin Helene Hebert
Mathematics Never Cease To Amaze Me
1 min readMay 14, 2022

One day I was just adding numbers together in various dates. I do that sometimes. Doesn’t everybody? LOL. Well I was thinking of when my granddaughter was born. Her birthday is 6/22/17. This coming June she will be 5. (Obviously). Well all of a sudden I felt this urge to add up her birthday digits. 6+2+2+1+7=18, 1+8=9. Ok, I thought nothing of that one. That was the place marker I guess. I went onto the next year. 6+2+2+1+8=19, 1+9=10, 1+0=1. Ok now we are getting somewhere. She turned 1 that year. Sequentially it works out. Bear with me regarding all the numbers. So for year 2: 6+2+2+1+9=20, 2+0=2! Year 3: 6+2+2+2+0=12, 1+2=3! For age 4: 6+2+2+2+1=13, 1+3=4! This goes on and on until she reaches 22! And that is the date she was born. For instance: 6+2+2+3+8=21 no need to add the 2 + 1. That’s the age she’s 21. And the finale: 6+2+2+3+9=22. That’s the last date it works. Let’s test the next date: 6+2+2+4+0=14, the equation is broken. Wow!

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Robin Helene Hebert
Mathematics Never Cease To Amaze Me

What’s to say? I’m here to learn and inspire others too. And yes bring in income. I’m 66 and almost fully retired.