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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children) You know what fucks me up is that 21 has a "nine-ness" quality to it now that sometimes makes me mess up real math. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child) Hah I can believe that. I’m not technically synaestehtic but I do have strong associations between numbers and colors, days of the week and colors. Saturday has always been blue. Sunday is red. Number 4 is green, 3 is yellow, etc. For a time I moved to an Islamic country where Friday is the holy day, not Sunday. So the weekends were Thursday-Friday and not Saturday-Sunday. What was weird is that my red/blue associations with Saturday/Sunday shifted onto Thursday/Friday after a long time of living like this. And then I left that place and my associations shifted back. The “nineness” of a thing, as you say, is hard to describe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 4 months ago Do you think the sat/blue sun/red thing comes from calendars? I don't think about it often, but I do think there is a "redness" to sunday. permalink fedilink source parent [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* oh that's easy. all multiples of three, you add their digits and the digits add up to three. also if you've made a transposition error (179 instead of 197) you will be off by a multiple of 9. sorry bookkeepers i just gave away your trade secret. the one. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child) Hah I can believe that. I’m not technically synaestehtic but I do have strong associations between numbers and colors, days of the week and colors. Saturday has always been blue. Sunday is red. Number 4 is green, 3 is yellow, etc. For a time I moved to an Islamic country where Friday is the holy day, not Sunday. So the weekends were Thursday-Friday and not Saturday-Sunday. What was weird is that my red/blue associations with Saturday/Sunday shifted onto Thursday/Friday after a long time of living like this. And then I left that place and my associations shifted back. The “nineness” of a thing, as you say, is hard to describe. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 4 months ago Do you think the sat/blue sun/red thing comes from calendars? I don't think about it often, but I do think there is a "redness" to sunday. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 4 months ago Do you think the sat/blue sun/red thing comes from calendars? I don't think about it often, but I do think there is a "redness" to sunday. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* oh that's easy. all multiples of three, you add their digits and the digits add up to three. also if you've made a transposition error (179 instead of 197) you will be off by a multiple of 9. sorry bookkeepers i just gave away your trade secret. the one. permalink fedilink source parent
