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Re: Visualization and mental math
Posted By: Ayako, on host 209.142.55.149
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2001, at 13:57:27
In Reply To: Re: Visualization and mental math posted by Dave on Saturday, August 18, 2001, at 17:41:41:

> As an aside, does anyone else visualize numbers the way I do? Anytime I see numbers in my head, unless I'm arranging them to do a problem, I see them on a clock face. So the numbers 1-12 are arranged in order like they are on a clock, and starting with thirteen, they snake up into oblivion in my mind's eye. So 13 is above and to the right of 12, 14 is above and to the right of 13, but they sort of start going up more straight after 15, until they kind of hit a peak at 20 and flatten out again. Then they slope up much more slowly until 35 or 40 or so, then shoot up again. Somewhere around 70 or so they start bending back towards the left, because I get the distinct impression of 90-100 ascending right-to-left instead of left-to-right.
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>Ok, I guess I'm just crazy. :-(

Hey, I do this too! Well, it starts out the same, anyway, with 1-12 in clock formation. 13-20 go in a straight line up from the 12. After that, they inexplicably start going to the left and down and then up again, so that 21-30 form the bottom half of a circle. 31-40 do the same thing, only back to the right. Then numbers just start slanting up and right, maybe with dips between multiples of 10. I don't know why that thing in between 20 and 40 happens.

I do months of the year in a circle, too. A sort of misshapen circle, actually. January starts on the high left, and the months slant down and right until July or so, after which they start curving left and up again until December meets January.

Aya"Crazier than Dave"ko