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- ammansabet
If someone was going to do a survey about the personality of the simplest, most basic and pure numbers. what do you think they should be limited to?
a- the numbers zero though nine
b- the numbers zero through ten
c- the numbers one through tenThis is becommming a huge argument between my brother.
- slice0
your brothers a dick. c 1-10
- slice0
your brothers a dick. c 1-10
- welded0
base 10 is one through ten, I believe. I'd go with that.
- spifflink0
c 1-10
0 isn't a number, its a placeholder
- reluct0
What spifflink said.
- kbags0
A- zero through nine
Zero is a number and it's part of the number '10'. But the number '10' also has this other number, '1,' right? Therefore, I don't believe '10' to be simplest, most basic and/or pure.
Good luck with that.
- Soler0
I second that kbags
- DutchBoy0
very well put kbags..i concur.
- welded0
Hm, yes. My first instinct, but not my vote. I would like to change my vote.
- DutchBoy0
no cheating!
- ammansabet0
see, the 0-9 thing was my point as well. I think like if you were going to have the number 10, its partially made up of the personalities of 1 and 0. Like a skinny black man with a fat white wife. So if youre gonna poll peoples reactions to see numbers, you'd go with 0 through 9 right?
I guess the other argument is that 10 is the completion of the decimal place, and zero is not a quantity.
- ctrlRmB0
0 - 10
zero has a personality to be explored... so does 10.
- ammansabet0
yeah, bt onece you make an excuse for ten, you can invite all the numbers in on the survey. Then its chaos!
- DutchBoy0
" its partially made up of the personalities of 1 and 0. Like a skinny black man with a fat white wife. "
oh my..
:D
- spifflink0
no, 10 only has a 0 in its name, not value. you cant explore personality by its quantification. 0 pure and simple is nothing, its very nature is that of placeholder only. 10 has quantity.
- johndiggity0
numbers do not have personlities. they are inanimate objects.
- JamesEngage0
you can make any number with 0 to 9
- ********0
45
903,229
.00319
481
-3
33,3990-9 of course
- vespa0
"Four is an interesting number because it is a shape that would arouse the curiosity of a cat," wrote Saul Steinberg. "Most numbers are either open or closed. Number 8, for instance, is closed; a cat has no business to look inside. A cat likes to peer into something that is half open - a little bit open - a mystery. Number 3 is obvious, number 1 is nothing, 5 perhaps is more intriguing, but 4 certainly is perfectly designed and engineered for a cat to look inside and find out what is going on."
Not for nothing are letters and numbers called characters, as Steinberg appreciated when he drew them as personalities. "5 and 2 might happily get into bed together," but "1, 4 and 7 have no sex appeal."
(from The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher)