Herminny raised her hand for like the umpteenth time and said, "You caculate the destiny number by assigning each of the letters of you're first, middle and last name a number based on the Pythagorian number system. From there you add up you're first middle and last name seperately till you have two or three one digit numbers based an whether you have a middle name or not. From there you add the 2 or three digit numbers together till you are left with one one digit number and that is you're destiny number.