information Perfect numbers revisited Part Deux: 360 and 100

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I’ve followed the seemingly cryptic obsession of the Chinese for Arabic numerals for years.

Around 2002, at a time that I was investing in short LLN and LNN .com domains that were available to register en masse, a very smart domainer lady shared with me the information that seems to be less of a secret nowadays: the sound of numbers in Chinese converts into words that can be combined into short, meaningful phrases.

Of course, that’s not the only reason why the Chinese are currently buying numeric domains.

Numbers require only the top row of the keyboard to be utilized, unlike the alphabets of the Latin or Chinese language. And for the really lazy, three or more keystrokes of the same number is an added bonus.

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