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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language programming" 2009.01.10
(01) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Given that
the entire world population can be expressed in just 10 digits, I can't work
out why we need a 16-digit anything!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul<br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language programming"</span><br>
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Beste Jacqueline, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You wrote:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">Is there anything known about how we arrive at the
rythm for large numbers.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">A Chinese
guy once told me he could memorize very long numbers quite well, because in
Chinese it's easy to slightly alter the way a number is pronounced (changing
tonality for example) and retain a meaningful word. That way he could build a
sentence that still made sense and represented the given number.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Personally,
every number that enters my mind is visualized on my internal
"blackboard". Whatever I imagine becomes a picture, both numbers and
words. Simple operations can be done right away in this "clipboard":
arithmetics, geometric transformations, spelling. This works very well with
small amounts of data. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">When data
streams fast however, other mechanisms become functional. I have the impression
that people who can easily retell a long story (or a joke for that matter *s*)
may be more hooked on rhythm and sound.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc
Hellinckx</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>