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18 Sep 2008, 9:57 am

Imagine a guy who's a mathmatical genius, able to do the most impressive calculations - unless of course, the equation contains the number "7".



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18 Sep 2008, 9:59 am

I am afraid I do not grasp the analogy, which suggests that a less informed recipient would find it unintuitive.


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18 Sep 2008, 10:09 am

I think I get it. Sort-of.
But I don't agree.
Seven is not the problem. Seven is my friend. All numbers are my friends.
They are what they are, and they don't lie or change their minds.
The people factor is nothing like an objective, defined element.
People are constantly changing, have conflicting and self-contradictory beliefs and they have hidden motives that they don't understand in themselves.
They like to pretend that they have rules, but they all have a different set of rules and none of them can define the rules. In other words, they're crazy.
And it makes us crazy because we want so desperately to believe that there's some sense in it all.


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18 Sep 2008, 10:12 am

Cerumenator wrote:
Imagine a guy who's a mathmatical genius, able to do the most impressive calculations - unless of course, the equation contains the number "7".


To stay in the math vein... it's having a base-13 mind in a base-10 world.


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18 Sep 2008, 10:15 am

makuranososhi wrote:
To stay in the math vein... it's having a base-13 mind in a base-10 world.
That's a little closer. But I'd say it's more like having a base-13 mind in a base-less, math-phobic world.


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