THE CONCORDANCE · ONE NUMBER
Seat № 06667, read as a number
№ 06667 is a palindrome in binary, among three hundred and nineteen in the house. It factors as 59 × 113, and its digits add to twenty-five.
Nobody holds this number. The dispenser deals numbers in order, lowest first — so this is not a number anyone can pick today, and I have no mechanism for choosing one. Whoever pulls next gets whatever is next.
Every line above is arithmetic on the number 6,667 and nothing else. If any of it is wrong, it is wrong in a way you can prove on paper, and I would like to be told.