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by tragomaskhalos 1156 days ago
Reminiscent of Borges' story 'Funes the memorious', whose title character has a completely eidetic memory and invents his own number system where each number is its own distinct word or phrase - a system described rather beautifully (in the English translation) as 'a rhapsody of incoherent terms ... precisely the opposite of a system of numbers'