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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.09 (02) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">from heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Marlou wrote</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">that blind spot at 7+8 is
interesting! Is it commutative, i.e. is 8+7 just as bad as 7+8? I found as a child
that it helped to add the smaller number to the greater... a little :-)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">No. I don't think it was (
I have reprogrammed my thinking so have no problems now!) But I did find
it interesting that I carried it over to higher numbers e.g. 17 + 38 but
perhaps that is not surprising as I start addition very 'properly ' i.e. as
taught in school by starting to add the units so I 'see' 17 as 10 + 7 and
38 as 30 + 8: so I add the units together and add any 10s created thereby to
one of the others sets of 10s - in this case mostly likely the 30</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">So my brain seems to look
at 17 + 38, breaks it down into 10+7 and 30 + 8. I then add 7 +8 (which I can
do now!) and arrive at 15. I hold the 5 visually in the right hand side of my
inner sight and add the 10 to 30 = 40. I then add the 10 (of 17) and and put it
to the left of the figure 5 held in inner sight and so arrive at 55.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I am sure there must be
easier less complicated ways of doing this sum!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I once asked a gifted
teenage mathematician how his inner mind worked with numbers and he seemed to
be describing some kind of enormous blackboard with numbers and patterns of
numbers dissolving in and out of sight. He seemed to have very clear areas
where he 'looked' for answers i.e. a complicated addition and the number/
answer would swim into view in the top right hand corner. Does this
indicate that computation takes place subliminally? And the answer is brought
up to conscious awareness on this 'blackboard of the brain"?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heather</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Sorry not very Lowlandish -
but I am hoping that those with different number systems may provide
interesting and differing descriptions, which might go to show that differing
number systems produce different methods of calculation or different visualisation</span></p>
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