Calculating a lucky number for Lanice
The lucky number for Lanice (or any other name) is calculated by using a special table which gives a numeric value to each letter of the alphabet. The table we used is derived from the Kabbalah and used by Hebrew and Arab mystics.
Here are the letters of the roman alphabet and their values:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
So the numbers for each letter of Lanice are:
| L | a | n | i | c | e |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
First we add the digits of all the letters: 3+1+5+1+3+5 = 18
Which is still more than one digit
so we add the digits of 18: 1+8 = 9
Which gives Lanice a lucky number of nine!
Calculating two digit lucky numbers for Lanice
The two digit lucky numbers for Lanice are those two digit numbers which when their digits are summed to give a single digit, give the lucky number (nine) for the name.
Mathematically, this turns out to be the set of numbers less than 100 of the form L + 9n (where L is the lucky number and n is a natural number).
Algorithmically, this is:
for ( int i = luckynum + 9; i < 100; i += 9 )
print( i );
Which, for Lanice gives us: 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90 99!