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by johnatwork 1564 days ago
This is similar to how I see it. I have a hard time explaining how 7 is a tipsy number that's about the fall into 3 and 4, and how 9 has a voracious appetite to take away a number from another and you can't stop him. It all started when I was younger and my mom told me to bring every number down to 2s and 3s, and to always be adding or subtracting idle numbers (just numbers without any operators).

I explained it (poorly) to my wife once and she made fun of me about it. Well until our son told us years later out of the blue that it's how he sees numbers.
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NylaTheWolf 1563 days ago
Things like numbers having personalities is actually a type of synesthesia! Apparently the specific name for it is "ordinal linguistic personification" [0] What the author of this article is describing is also a type of synesthesia. You should look into it!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personifi...

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igpay 1564 days ago
That description is eerily close to how I feel. Seven for me is definitely a very "loosely bound" number, and it wants to separate along the three and the four.
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