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From: ssimpson@trwrba.UUCP (Scott W. Simpson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Psychology Pointer
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 04:35:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 04:35:59 1985
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	Has anyone seen any articles discussing how people envision
abstract numbering systems?  For example, when I think of the alphabet,
I envision it as a circle (probably a flashback to my "See-and-Say"
days).  I see a number line as going up then down from one to twenty,
from twenty to 100 the number line cycles up and down vertically to the
left, and from 100 to 1000 the number line goes horizontally to the
right.  When I count, I mentally picture it in this format.  The
structuring seems to be in subsets; that is, when I think of the number
120,  I see it in the same position relative to other adjacent numbers
as if the leading one had been left off.
	Sorry if this posting is to the inappropriate newsgroup. I
didn't see a net.psychology.
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		Scott Simpson
		TRW Electronics and Defense Sector
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