More Thoughts on the Number 15

Do you realize that the only other two whole numbers that combine to equal fifteen, besides six and nine which I discuss below, are seven and eight? These two are also almost perfect numbers when represented graphically. I'd show you what I mean on a tabletop using forks, but I'm afraid the results would look like another adolescent joke.

I'll show you what I mean in type instead, using exclamation points to represent single units:

!-!-!
!!!!!

-!-!-
!!!!!

Put them both together and, once again, you get fifteen, a perfectly balanced number. It isn't quite as perfect a six and nine, or rather it is perfect in a slightly different way without symbolically appealing to eastern mysticism.

!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!

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