Last night, I wrote about how the date of Athus's passing could be written in three different ways, and that math is one of the ways I deal with stress in general.

This morning, I was thinkin' 'bout numbers again, and came up with another neat (nerdy) fact.

The three ways to write the date are 101111, 111011, and 111110, which can be interpreted as binary numbers. In decimal, they are 47, 59, and 62. One of our running jokes was my attraction to prime numbers (it's a long story). The first two of these numbers are prime, and the third can be expressed as the product of two primes, 2*31.

Following that train of thought, if you write out those numbers again: 47, 59, 2×31, you'll notice that no numbers are repeated. The only digits missing are 8 and 0. If you add the original three numbers up in either hexadecimal or decimal, you'll find the 8 as the final digit.

This is especially fitting, since an eight on its side is infinity.
As for the digit 0, it never existed. His life was not for "naught". It always had value and will continue to have value forever.