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Article #1267Re: I think numbers should be more colorful !
From: Jose Maria Gonzalez Ondina
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:54
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:54
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"David Wilkinson" <david@wilkinson6337.freeserve.co.uk> escribi๏ฟฝ en el mensaje news:dlrtva$lrk$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk... > Eliot Coweye wrote: >> IMO the 1 certainly is green, the 2 blue and a 3 is yellow, while 4 >> should be orange, 5 brown and 7 pink.8 is red and 9 grey and 0, of >> course, black. >> >> I think with the right colors, we'll be able to solve more mathematical >> problems, because the colors will add a new dimension to boring >> numbers. >> >> What do you think? >> > You are obviously not a snooker player or you would know that 1 is red, > 2 yellow, 3 green, 4 brown, 5 blue, 6 pink and 7 black. Oh, and white is > minus 4! For me, 1 is black, 2 is blue, 3 is yellow, 4 is also black, 5 red, 7 brown, 8 black again.. I don't know if it was already mentioned elsewhere (I'm a newbie in this group), but this is called synaesthesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia). I have to admit that I feel some kind of relief when I discovered I wasn't the only person that thought in colored numbers. Jose M. Ondina
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X-Google-Thread: 107079,b6c6166e870cb3f1 X-Google-Thread: 108147,b6c6166e870cb3f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,gid108147,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.unican.es!not-for-mail From: "Jose Maria Gonzalez Ondina" <xxxjmglez@gmail.com> Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,brasil.unix Subject: Re: I think numbers should be more colorful ! Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:54:20 +0100 Organization: Universidad de Cantabria NEWS Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: <dls5cd$nlk$1@ccserver13.unican.es> References: <1132536553.040661.34200@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <dlrtva$lrk$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: puerpc35.caminos.unican.es X-Trace: ccserver13.unican.es 1132566733 24244 193.144.203.175 (21 Nov 2005 09:52:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@ccserver13.unican.es NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:52:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response