Businessman pays millions for numberplate

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Balwinder Sahni, an Indian businessman based in Dubai, who paid more than $12.5 million for his D5 number plate for one of his Rolls Royces. He says in numerology, D5 represents the number 9 which is his lucky number. He also owns the third-most expensive number-plate ‘09’ which he coughed up $9.48 million for in auction.



People wonder why it's not a great idea to elect billionaires to become world leaders.

@Mountaingoat
It's not the cars it's the fact he would spend almost $20 million on number plates. When you have money coming out of the wazoo and you don't give a cent to charity you spend millions on useless things like throwing millions on a black jack table in a casino, a gold toilet (Trump tower) or stupid number plates.

Must be a slow news day.

His thinking ... D + 5 = 9, because D is the 4th letter in the English alphabet.

So, 4 + 5 = 9.

I suppose you didn’t think to see whether or not he ever gave one cent to charity before making that claim.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khalee ... ty%3famp=1

That link is acting funny on my phone, but the headline is "Dubai number plate collector donates Dh100m to charity".

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/dubai- ... to-charity

As long as he's not L 7.

Maybe he also knows that "D" in hexadecimal arithmetic is "13", and that "D9" equals "11011001" (in binary) and "217" (in decimal).  Thus "D9" represents the ASCII character "┘", which is "Nine o'Clock"!

See?  I can do off-the-wall numerology too!

Ok I didn't think about his obvious dedication to numerology and it's link to his fortune. Also explains the furious bidding between like minded billionaires to get the plates at auction.

But honestly I am in the wrong industry if there are brainless millionaires who would pay $50m for a monocoloured canvass



I mean...too much dollars and not enough "sense".