From CHRIS BENTLEY
I have a cheap solar-powered pocket calculator which I keep in my office
desk. Quite often, though not always, when I open my desk drawer the calculator
registers a self-generated number, commonly 25 but just as frequently a
much more complicated number. The number may be generated at the time the
drawer is opened when light first strikes the panel, though my present office
is fairly dark and I have yet to see the number actually appearing. My
previous office was sunny but I have detected no change in the machine’s
behaviour since moving. I should add that the calculator continues to operate
perfectly normally when required to perform.
My questions are these: What processes are involved in creating the
power to generate the numbers? And what determines the selection of the
numbers?
It has occurred to me that perhaps someone or something is trying to
communicate but I fear that if this is the case the message has so far
eluded me. The numbers don’t work on the pools either.
Chris Bentley Southwell, Nottinghamshire
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