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09 Jul 2013, 2:37 pm

A recent xkcd comic has this image:

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I know we have a few members here with grapheme-colour synesthesia. If you're one of them, can you see any big digits in the ball of little ones?



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09 Jul 2013, 10:56 pm

I have grapheme-colour synethesia and can definitely see the number 6. On a closer look, I can see a 4.


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10 Jul 2013, 12:16 am

Well it's not really fair when 2 & 6 are basically the same colour, as are 4 & 7 and 3 & 8.

I know there's a 4 and I can see the 2 (meaning of life?), but I think that's because he has squished the numbers together a bit. I'm only an associating synaestheste so the colours don't just pop out at me.

In any case, the joke underneath is pretty funny. :lol:



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10 Jul 2013, 1:28 pm

Yeah, it is meant to be 42, according to explainxkcd.com. It's interesting that you see a 6 in there, anneurysm - perhaps explainxkcd didn't discover everything about this image!