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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: number visualization
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 13:45:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 13:45:59 1986
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Hmm.  I don't usually think of numbers in any visual way.  When I try,
I think of just the numeral in black on a white background.  But my first
impression of, say, *two*, isn't anything visual, but just a feeling of
"twoness".

Just a boring person, I guess.

When I do arithmetic, I actually visualize a sheet of paper, and mentally 
write the numbers.  Maybe that's why I'm very poor at doing it in my head.  
In fact, I'm poor at arithmetic in general--I come into my own only with
algebra, calculus, etc.--the more abstract stuff.  (Have trouble with left
and right, too, but that's another story...)
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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