21896- wife's constant,gujili and The Dude

This event occurred 4 years ago.Srinath,yes the Zen dude,unknowingly reminded me of it today.Incidentally it was he who started the whole thing.He would bring a calculator and ask all sort of questions,most of them were like,for example asking something about the hurricanes or the nuclear reactors in japan and would do calculations on his calculator(I guess he had just bought it and was showing off)based on what i answer.Naturally that aroused my interest and i asked him what he was doing?He told he was trying to predict my future spouse's name from my answers and his calculations.I laughed at him but nevertheless was curious as to which name would crop up as i love on an average 2-3 girls a day.After some fairly long calculations that might have distracted the brains working behind decoding the mathematical progressions in Tool's Lateralus album(if u love mathematics and want to see it being used intelligently in music Read here ...),he arrived at an answer which was fairly simple.Just a Mrs. before my name!
I was fooled and naturally i wanted to fool others.So i brought this game to hostel and it was going on as expected until one day when a very suspicious Bondu found out what we were going to do and he tried to spoil our fun.That's when we(by this time my partner in crime at college Karthi has joined me)had an inspiration and found out a new mathematical hypothesis by which we found his life partner's name.We told him the name(which was a of cs girl of our college whose name begins with p) and as fate would have it,he had studied with the girl in school and had a soft room(soft corner is an insult!) for her in his heart.He started pestering us for the formula and very soon we adopted this variation of the game.
We played this game many of them,but the most memorable one was RRK.To add credibility to our supposed formula,we said we got 2 names for him which rhymed like vidya and divya.RRK let out his trademark guva-uaa sound and said he knows both the girls and he started wondering which one of them shall be his spouse and started asking us questions like
"I studied with this girl only till this,do you think it's possible?or i have never talked with her,how can it happen?" As we were calculating for find RRK's spouse name,our Sherlock Bondu Holmes slyly followed our calculations and made a sensational discovery.He in fact has seen it previously when we were playing with others.What he found was we are always using 21896 and smiled rather superciliously.We told him according to our formula that number was wife's constant.
Well,we played the game with many others and finally when Bondu's cousin who was working at some place called us and asked us to find his spouse's name,we found it and even he became interested as to how we found it.That's when we decided to call quits as the game seemed to go out of control.
The spouse predicting formula has so far never has been proved wrong and Bondu kept asking about the formula till as late as 4th semester,but we told him nothing.I and Karthi hold the patent rights for it.Next time you see someone who is impatient and can't wait to know who will be his/her life partner would be,you'd know whom to contact.Maybe at that time we might as well start Spouse predicting game season-2.