Digital displays in adjoining spaces flashed consecutive numbers, adumbrating our time on earth is circumscribed.

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Within the study, participants were asked to quickly scan a row of digits and cross out consecutive numbers that add to a pre-specified total (for example, any two numbers that total 3).

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Cash machines in Harare spill out wads of notes with consecutive serial numbers.

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That ended a run of nine consecutive months of negative year-on-year sales numbers.

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Google, privately held--and determinedly so, for now--won't talk numbers, but it does brag that it just logged its ninth consecutive profitable quarter.

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