How much would you pay for a dollar bill with 23513347 for the serial number? ( 2.35133469 is the cube root of 13. You don't find that everywhere.) Sure, everyone likes repeaters: 3333, and like that. And everyone can see an obvious series such as 1234 or 87654 or even 246810. But what about 314159? Or 271828? or 66261?
1 dollar... a math teacher or the like might pay more but to an average person such as myself those numbers mean nothing... (i hated math!)
I don't believe these serial combos will win over in the court of public opinion. The "sought after" fancy serials are what they are, regardless of how logical yours may seem
Ha, that one even this math-challenged person recognized right away - in the context of a topic dealing with cool numbers. But I doubt that many people would instantly think "hey, pi!" when coming across such that sequence in a serial number. I know I wouldn't ... Christian
If you come across any date bill with the date June 18th 2011 or September 22nd 1983, you'll have a buyer!
Doesn't he provide an example right in the first line? And the number of digits varies from country to country anyway. Ours have nine, ten or eleven, depending on how one counts ... Christian
Anyone ever play "Liar's Poker"? Instructions 1 Give each player a set of numbers to play with. This can be from the serial numbers on dollar bills, or by randomly generating numbers for each player. Each player needs eight digits to begin play. 2 Decide who goes first and wait for him to announce a poker hand that he believes can be created by combining all the numbers from all players. For example, he might call "two sixes." That would mean that he thinks there are at least two sixes among all the numbers being played. 3 Wait for the second player to announce a better poker hand than the previous player did. Play continues until you do not believe that the hand mentioned is actually available within the numbers in play. When that happens, call liar and look at everyone's numbers. If you were correct, you get a point, if the caller was correct, he gets a point. http://www.ehow.com/how_2167149_play-liars-poker.html Yes! I got a bill and counted the digits. But if you have a run of 4444 or 12345 within those eight, then that makes the note worth more to some people. 03997444 is a full house: 2 Nines and 3 Fours. But I am holding out for 66738480. The coolest set of banknotes would be a set of PHYSICISTS AND THEIR CONSTANTS. Among very many website for Physicists on Banknotes: http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money.htm You would have a lot of leeway to pick your numbers. No "Curie's Constant" or "Bohr's Constant" is offered, but for Curie, just say, you could have 226025 the atomic weight of radium, and so on. It is up to you to define your own collection. If you are really - I mean really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good at maths, you could probably take ANY banknote and make up a pattern, algorithm or heuristic to give it special meaning. 1729 Two markets dominate numismatics: Those who sell what everyone else wants; and those who buy what they want.
