I too feel like I've been fed a heaping helping of red herring in regard to the numbers and the Valenzetti Equation, especially in light of the way they seem so good at looping back to correlate seemingly unrelated aspects and the way last weeks episode showed us specific reasons for the spacetime discontinuities associated with the island. Hopefully, it's a deliberate misdirection and we'll all go "oooooooooooooooo" when they tie it back in. I'll be really disappointed if that doesn't happen