Stick with me a minute. I promise we will eventually get into why 2016 is a terminus and 2017 is a LOOP year…. First some background is necessary to get your brain warmed up.
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Numbers don’t lie, but liars indeed (can and do),number…

It has been said that mathematics is the only pure science.

Perhaps this tends to be true, because mathematics within itself contains the mechanism by which mathematical statements are proven. With a little thought it will be observed that other sciences lack this ability, and eventually must rely on mathematics for proof of their treatises.

Never the less, it is a fact that all scientific disciplines require mathematics courses within their study as THE tool for complete understanding of all other scientific fields.

Although many have an aversion to them, numbers can be fascinating. They are basic to our lives. (think ‘counting’ or simply balancing your checkbook).

Numbers-- Past, Present and Future.

Numbers indeed quantify past HISTORICAL events. (when did I last cut the grass… how many days have I lived on earth… how old are my tomato plants?)

Numbers in the PRESENT are quite useful for analysis, and virtually everyone relies on math for guidance in their daily lives, mostly without being aware. (what time must I leave for work to remain within the speed limit?.. When must I turn on the crock pot? How much cash should I carry today?)

With sufficient data, numbers can PREDICT physical things in the future. (from when your checkbook will run out of funds… to when the moon will again be at apogee…)

The fact is…. numbers have existed forever, whether anything or anyone was aware of them, or not. They have always determined the present. Likewise, they have always quantified the past and predicted the future.

Physically, the present consists of three dimensions. Some postulate time as a fourth dimension, and while it is true that time is required fto define both past and future, it is not required to define PRESENT. Time is absent AT the moment that is the present.

There are numbers called “Armstrong” numbers. Sometimes they are also termed narcissist numbers. (check WIKI).

An “Armstrong number” is an n-digit number that is equal to the sum of the nth powers of its individual digits.

There are only five three digit Armstrong numbers greater than zero (the math jury is still out on whether zero is actually a number or not). The five Armstrong numbers are: 1, 153, 370, 371 and 407. And whether zero is a number or not, 0 is also narcissist. ALL numbers whether of 2, 3, 4 or more digits (when their digits are cubed and summed) will either converge to one of the above 5 numbers or will perpetually “loop” back to itself after going through a repeating sequence of other numbers.

Some have suggested that there is a Spiritual significance, when the sequence is applied to Biblical numbers. See, for example a treatise of the 153 fish and the numbers 1 through 10 at: http://home.earthlink.net/~bobseller1/id89.html .

Although the sequence is (erroneously) termed ‘triangular’ numbers there, the application is the same.

In any case, we evolved through all the math talk to get to the headline of the post:

Why 2017 is a “loop year”....

There are quite a few loop back numbers. Examples include 4, 64, 280, 520, and 33. These progress to the number 55, only to return to 55 after a couple of iterations.

While 2016 terminates with the number 370, intimating it ends… (370 always yields 370) while the year number 2017 is a ‘loop back’ number.

The numerical progress of math operations on 2017 gets to 55, (the single digit number of GRACE is 5, as proposed by http://home.earthlink.net/~bobseller1/id89.html ) subsequent calculations keep returning to that number, 55.

Interesting stuff.