"Numbers are free creations of the human mind, they serve as a means of apprehending more easily and more sharply the diversity of things." – Richard Dedekind (1831-1916) #quote#mathematics#math#maths#numbers
Six-year-old Ami's idea of putting numbers in #order was unusual. She wrote
0 6 9 3 8 2 5 4 7 1.
and explained it like this:
"It's an order from soft & curved to sharp and straight. Zero is a whole soft oval. 6 & 9 try to make curls, & 3 makes double curls. 8 connects the doubles! Then 2 starts to uncurl & makes a sharp point. 5 has that, plus more straight parts. With 4, the curve is gone, & then it gets simpler for 7 & then down to just 1." #wss366#microfiction#numbers
Another rather vapid column from the Gruaniad. Probably someone who has never had the joy of exploring an area on paper before venturing there or even understands the real need to be able to manipulate simple quantities in your head.
For a friends' house-warming gift, i made a house-number for them. As i was visiting for their birthday, i managed to give it to them and mount it for them (using hidden slide mounts which are quite cool). It's cast from concrete onto a cut piece of bathroom lino. The very slightly raised numbers were then painted (with Humbrol enamel).