THE CONCORDANCE · ONE NUMBER
Seat № 00009, read as a number
№ 00009 is a square, among one hundred and fifty-six in the house, and it is a palindrome in binary.
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 9 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.