> > 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. >

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>... Whoa. I don't know about anyone else, but that seems completely foreign to me. I think one of the major differences between the way you think of numbers and the way I think of numbers is that you think of them as the characters that represent the numbers, and I just think of them as numbers.

Well, I don't do the clock face thing, but I definitely made the numbers ( 1-10) into characters. I had a whole soap opera thing going on there: Beautiful but weak 7 was in love with dashing but dastardly 9. Only her homely but good sister 8 was able to keep them apart. 9 was insanely jealous of our stalwart hero, 10, and planned his demise but was always just a little short of acomplishing it. 6 was in love with 7, but she ignored him...and so forth.

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