VERY odd!

[Paul Higg]

I have FIVE gas receipts in front of me with the SAME EXACT DOLLAR AMOUNT! I ALWAYS fill up from various gas levels so you'd think the dollar amount would be different. According to my receipts I bought differing amounts of gas. All from the same Kroger. Here's how it looks:

2/27/08 $53.95 $3.099 per gal, bought 17.409 gallons
4/7/08 $53.95 $3.309 per gal, bought 16.305 gallons
6/11/08 $53.95 $4.199 per gal, bought 12.849 gallons
6/30/08 $53.95 $3.949 per gal, bought 13.662 gallons
7/12/08 $53.95 $4.139 per gal, bought 13.035 gallons.

I did the math, it adds up. What are the odds?

Paul

 

[hotshotzny]

the odds are if you dont play that number on the win 4 lotto you are out of your mind!

i might just for s&g's myself

 

[Paul Higg]

LOL I JUST played it for tonight and the rest of the week!

I am not good with math so I wish someone could tell me the mathematical odds of this happening. I think I'd have a better chance of seeing Barbara Bush naked than this number cropping up in five consecutive gas fills.

;help

 

[G Winter]

Were you getting the car full? Maybe your card is set to stop at that dollar amount . When this gas first took this big jump the pump shut off at $74.99 when filling my truck using a card. I had to buy near that amount a couple times so the computer that watches that let it go higher.


Glenn

 

[Paul Higg]

That was my thought too, but I have bought way more than that in groceries. I am going to call my credit union tomorrow and ask about this. If I were to go to another station and try to fill it up the card would let me, if it would take the gas that is.

It is filling it up though, it clicks off and I can't squeeze in another drop.

 

[G Winter]

It will act like it is full. Seems to be specific to gas purchase. I use the same card to buy dollar amounts in the Thousands.


Glenn

BTW is is a Mastercard .

 

[Paul Higg]

Well, when I reset the gas at the pump and when it finally adjusts to miles to go, it is always 400 or so miles so I know it is full. I am baffled by this. I will definitely call my bank tomorrow. If this is what's going on I will tell them I'll take my business elsewhere.

 

[Paul Higg]

I just called my credit union who happens to be open and they said they have no limit on my card so that rules that out. Either this is a trillion to one shot or the station stops it at that number. But the car is full when I drive away.

Very odd.

 

[G Winter]

Watch it next time and see if you can make it go past that .



Glenn

 

[Paul Higg]

Will do.

 

[hotshotzny]

simple way to de-bunk this debate.... when you drive away and you look down... is your tank full.... end of story.... sounds to me like just an incredible coincidence..... then i had another crazy idea .. and it was so close ... thought they might add up to the number 23 ... but ahhhh its 22... thought you were gonna be part of some phenomenon....

 

[Paul Higg]

I have discovered the way to figure the odds of this happening. Here's how it goes:

You'd have to multiply the number of cents it would cost to fill up the tank by 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10x11, etc - up to 5395, or the 5395 factorial. Multiply that times five (for how many times it happened)

Chance would be one in 5x(5395 !) 5 times 5395 factorial.

So the odds would be in the trillions. Either it is a bizarre coincidence or (my guess) they stop the pump, why is anyone's guess.

And, yes, the tank is full. The miles to go reads 400 which is full on my Vette.

 

[Paul Higg]

BTW, what is this 22 and 23 business?

 

[hotshotzny]

BTW, what is this 22 and 23 business?

the number 23 is supposed to have some crazy thing about it.. they even made a movie about it a couple years back...

some of the things about it.. and there are tons

The date that the Titanic sank, 4/15/1912, 4+1+5+1+9+1+2=23.
• The date the Twin Towers were hit, 9/11/2001, 9+11+2+1=23.
• The tilt of Earth’s axis is roughly 23 degrees.
• A human baby receives 23 chromosomes from each parent.
• The 23rd letter of the English alphabet is W. On a QWERTY keyboard, W lies directly below the two and three.
• December 23, 2012 is the day the classic Mayans said the world would end.
• Five (2+3) is an immensely significant number in all ancient and some modern rites and rituals.
• The average head of human hair can support 23 tons of weight.
• 2/3=0.666 (The Devil’s number)

 

[Paul Higg]

Now that's cool. I see the number 13 ALL the time, on clocks, receipts, etc.

 

[hotshotzny]

Now that's cool. I see the number 13 ALL the time, on clocks, receipts, etc.

oh god thats my wife..... born on friday the 13th, 13 pops up everywhere.... the year my son was born her birthday was on friday the 13th and even tho it was 2 weeks early she was having some wicked contractions and i thought i was gonna have 2 of them born on the same day!

 

[Paul Higg]

Coolness!!

Hey, I FINALLY figured out what was causing the $53.95 in gas. I called the Kroger (because this was driving me nuts and I have nothing better to do as I am retired) and they told me that is a security measure. So I asked her if God forbid gas went up to $10.00 a gallon would they come out with an eyedropper and plop a drop in my tank and make me pay $53.95? What about guys that drive Hummers with, what do they have, a 1000 gallon tank? Do they limit them too? So the fix is I either have to pay at the window or I can trick the system by (maybe) filling it till that amount then swiping my card again. What a pain in the A**. Looks like I might change stations.

The odds are so high that a mathematician friend of mine said I would have a better chance of winning the lottery several times over. It's in the quintillions.

 

[Toms007]

Our local gas stations used to stop at $50, (again for security measures on their part), but when gas shot to $3.50/gal (or so) they upped that to $75. I had to swipe my card twice a couple of times to get filled up on a Suburban.