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Firstly, the following question only applies to those who are good at memorising lots of numbers i.e. irrational numbers to so many decimal places, constants in science etc...

When you remember a long number, how do you "see" it in your head? Do you just remember the numbers without really seeing anything, or do things come into your head?

I have a strange thing happen to me when I'm remembering numbers. I know 200 decimal places of pi at the moment, and when I recall them, I see shapes in my head, but they seem four-dimensional...? So I cannot explain how they are shaped, because they're not 3-D. I have a different shape for every group of five numbers in pi. This also helps me do quick mental arithmetic, as the numbers seem to coalesce to give the answer. Sometimes I even get a question in maths and I just do it, there and then, without thinking of HOW to do it. Its just that the shapes... warp themselves?

I do not necessarily memorize long numbers, but I memorize lots of shorter ones. For example, I have memorized the atomic masses of approximately forty elements on the periodic table, though I only go out as far as they are accurate and practical. I also have both pi and e memorized out to about ten digits after the decimal place, give or take a few.

I am able to do math mentally better than I am able to do it on paper and I only use paper for something that I either have to show my work or it is long and I will need to record my answer.

if your saying its 4-d a

Algorithm diagram is 4-d, Tesseract Hypercube, fourth dimension is often a representation for bounded transformations, tesseract can be unfolded into eight cubes, just as the cube can be unfolded into six squares. An unfolding of a polyhedron is called a net. There are 261 distinct nets of the tesseract..



A net of a tesseract





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any these pictures you see