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25 Mar 2014, 9:53 pm

that is a most interesting form of synesthesia.

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27 Mar 2014, 1:07 am

Yes weird but mild

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27 Mar 2014, 1:11 am

JSBACHlover wrote:

Yes weird but mild

the closest I get to that is that depending on the juxtaposition of the minute and hour hand on an analog clock face, I see people's faces- e.g., 4:37 looks like a totally different person than 10:45.

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27 Mar 2014, 9:03 am

That is a minor side-obsession of mine. The whole 3:33 thing.

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27 Mar 2014, 2:52 pm

Yes. For me it's 11:11 or 5:55!

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27 Mar 2014, 8:08 pm

I like figuring out the day of the week for any date in the Gregorian Calendar. That's a fun number obsession. It's not savantism for me, just calculation, and it's a fun game to play with friends.

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27 Mar 2014, 8:15 pm

JSBACHlover wrote:

I like figuring out the day of the week for any date in the Gregorian Calendar. That's a fun number obsession. It's not savantism for me, just calculation, and it's a fun game to play with friends.

Me too. I've been doing it since I was four or five. Haven't really told anyone about it though.

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27 Mar 2014, 8:25 pm

JSBACHlover wrote:

I like figuring out the day of the week for any date in the Gregorian Calendar. That's a fun number obsession. It's not savantism for me, just calculation, and it's a fun game to play with friends.

had you thought about going into maths academia?

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30 Mar 2014, 12:10 am

I did think about majoring in mathematics. I began my time at university as a physics major. All was gong well until I took linear algebra. "Imagine an n dimensional matrix with x columns and rows in each dimension n" - that was the end for me. It got too abstract for my brain, and I realized I couldn't do it. So I switched majors. But I do like math games. Once, for kicks, I decided to prove that the ratio between a cylinder of diameter x and height x, that the proportion between it and a sphere of diameter x (which fits nicely inside) is 3/2 - which Archimedes figured out without using a method which prefigured calculus. It took me an afternoon, but I did it. It was fun. And I still like figuring out the day of the week for any date. It's not a savant skill, it's a math skill, but I've gotten good at it, and it makes people go, "Wow, that's awesome!" And, as we all know, everything is awesome, and since I am part of everything, I have the awesome responsibility to be awesome, too.

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30 Mar 2014, 12:13 am

indubitably :wtg:

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30 Mar 2014, 12:17 am

You too, buddy.

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30 Mar 2014, 12:23 am

we both do our respective best. :mrgreen: btw how was your vacation?

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30 Mar 2014, 12:27 am

To Hawaii? It was great. We stayed on Kauai. It was me, my mom and my mom's sister. Mom and I had great bonding time together. It was great to feel the sun, the water and the sand. We had such a good time that next year we're going to Maui.