Numerologists often reduce a number or word by a process known as digit summing, then reach conclusions based on the single digit that is produced.
Digit summing, as the name implies, involves taking the sum of all of the digits in a number, and repeating the process as necessary until a single-digit answer is produced. For a word, the values corresponding to each letter's place in the alphabet (e.g., A=1, B=2, through Z=26) are summed.
Examples:3,489 ? 3 + 4 + 8 + 9 = 24 ? 2 + 4 = 6 Hello ? 8 + 5 + 12 + 12 + 15 = 52 ? 5 + 2 = 7