Hello Doves,

I saw the 9 being some kind of key as well.

Just playing around more with 234.  I thought about the simple method of marking numbers in base 5(?).  Example in the cartoons about someone stranded on an island and they mark off the days with 1  11  111  1111  and four 1111 with a diagonal slash /  through it for the number five, and then start over.

Since 2 3 4 are arabic numerals they could be simply represented this way,
               2 is 11
               3 is 111
               4 is 1111        which looks like our arabic numerals 11, 111, and 1111, or the digital clock numbers of 1:11, and 11:11.

PK