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From: wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Psychology Pointer
Message-ID: <498@sdcc12.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Dec-85 23:45:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 28 23:45:28 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Dec-85 03:19:55 EST
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Organization: Electronic Cottage, San Diego
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Summary: My numbers are colored.

In article <1755@trwrba.UUCP>, ssimpson@trwrba.UUCP (Scott W. Simpson) writes:
> 	Has anyone seen any articles discussing how people envision
> abstract numbering systems?...
> ... 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 ...
> ... When I count, I mentally picture it in this format...

Very interesting.
My numbers from zero to nine have had colors since early childhood:
0=black, 1=white, 2=brown, 3=silver, 4=red, 5=green, 6=grey, 7=yellow,
8=blue, 9=grey.  This creates some difficulty for me when I try to
read the color code on electrical components, which is: black, brown,
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, white respectively (I think).
My father saw numbers in the same colors, although he never tought
me.
Cheers,
Bernd <bear-nd>           *** hooray for USENET ***
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