#numbers

[todays-xkcd]

[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???

Reading a Big Number [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A large number is written along the middle of the panel. Above and below the number there are 10 labels, (5 above and 5 below), and from each label a small curved line points to a part of the number. There is a heading above the top labels:] Thought process while reading a big number:

[The number is continuing off the edge of the comic to the right, the last digit is missing about a third:] 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46

[The labels are listed below in the reading order as from where the small lines are pointing on to the number, so both those above and below the number, not first all those above. Text in the brackets indicate where on the number the line is pointing:]

[To the first two numbers before the first comma, label above the number:] 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start.

[To the first zero after the first comma, label below the number:] Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand.

[To the second comma, label above the number:] A second comma! I wonder if we're talking population or money.

[To the third comma, label below the number:] Yikes! If this is money, it's a lot of money.

[To the fifth comma, label above the number:] Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I'm not going to be able to visualize it.

[To the sixth comma, label below the number:] All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers.

[To the middle of a group of four zeros after the seventh comma, label above the number:] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we'll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it's two, we can at least hope the digits are right.

[To the middle of a group of four zeros after the eighth comma, label below the number:] Oh no.

[To the last two numbers of the three digits after the ninth comma, label below the number:] What is happening.

[To a quotation mark, where the eleventh comma should have been, label above the number:] Someone messed up real bad.

[To the first number in a group with mixed alphanumeric numbers, where the thirteenth comma should have been, label below the number:] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn't me.

[rockermazy]

This probably isn't a secret, but based on the other stuff I've heard of coming out of historical convents - particularly with their emphasis on daily routine and living in silence - I suspect that convents were just communities for folks deeper on the spectrum.

Meanwhile, part of my brain is trying to be sneaky about wanting to memorize this, while under the surveillance of the logical part of my brain that keeps reminding me that this writing system is super prone to typos if it's hand-written... Like, imagine confusing a 1 with a 3 if the writer adds that branch at the wrong angle because they wrote a little too fast or felt too dramatic. Or, if the penner intends to write a 1, but the second stroke just misses the top of the line, the character could be interpreted as a 2. I like to imagine that some of these issues could be fixed with embellishment, or using the stroke system used in Chinese (in which where a stroke begins changes meaning. overhangs are important).

It's actually pretty clever and logical.

[fyeahygocardart]

Number 69: Heraldry Crest

[numbers-96]

hihi! could i please request a lautity (steph x grace) doodle perhaps? :3c

"Hi Stephie!!" "Grace??"

like, abstinence camp but they already girlfriends 😌

[hyperpotamianarch]

#as someone with synesthesia there are warm and cold numbers#warm numbers: 4/8#medium numbers: 2/6#cold numbers: any odd number

How about 12, 16, 36? Are they warm because they're divisible by 4, or are they medium because of the 2/6?

do any other neurodivergent people see a lot of patterns in numbers and letters and get really happy when they see a pleasant number?? not just for obvious numbers like 222 i mean all numbers. if u give me any number (esp 4 digit ones i love those) i will at least try to find a pattern in them

[ungarmax]

*my favorite numbers

[prokopetz]

More favourite numerical memes:

Implicit or explicit enumeration of uncountable things (example: taking inventory of the fucks which one gives)

Suggesting the divisibility of things which are not customarily thought of as able to be subdivided (example: "six whole people")

Using words that aren't numbers as numbers (example: "one William dollars")

Technically correct but contextually misleading estimates (example: looking at a group of several thousand things and observing that there are "at least three")

Incongruous qualifiers for apparently simple sums or tallies (example: she was twenty-seven years old, not counting 2014)

[skf-fineart]

Very rare green and black painted wooden double-sided numerical snake motif gameboard. New England, Mid-19th Century. 12.5 x 12.5 in.

[xaoca]

Tezzo Suzuki, calendar

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[magickalsapphic]

to the neurodivergents and even the neurotypicals out there:

tag if you're mentally ill

[rawserhh]

i loved the new episode

[blistexenthusiast]

vintage holiday stamps