when you write a number is word form...

is it still a number or both a word and number? it can't be both, can it? CAN IT? ANSWER ME!

Originally posted by trev33
is it still a number or both a word and number? it can't be both, can it? CAN IT? ANSWER ME!

Originally posted by trev33
is it still a number or both a word and number? it can't be both, can it? CAN IT? ANSWER ME!

numbers are what they are: numbers. if they were words we'd call them words. words are also
what they are: letters. numbers are also letters in some forms, but never words. words and
letters are first cousins, though sometimes can be married. numbers can never be married,
unless to another number, but they're still not words. words, though, can be numbers. but
letters can't be numbers, unless in number form.

Four is two times two, in so many words.

Originally posted by Traveling Again
numbers are what they are: numbers. if they were words we'd call them words. words are also
what they are: letters. numbers are also letters in some forms, but never words. words and
letters are first cousins, though sometimes can be married. numbers can never be married,
unless to another number, but they're still not words. words, though, can be numbers. but
letters can't be numbers, unless in number form.

No1 will always be 'No One' to me. 😛

Try getting your header correct every so often, you got 5 minutes to look it over you know.

Originally posted by Very Rusty
No1 will always be 'No One' to me. 😛

Try getting your header correct every so often, you got 5 minutes to look it over you know.

Originally posted by Phlabibit
Just another hit and run thread, designed specifically to get me and Traveling Again in a BIG FIGHT!~

Originally posted by Phlabibit
Just another hit and run thread, designed specifically to get me and Traveling Again in a BIG FIGHT!~

Originally posted by Phlabibit
A number is a number, you see a symbol (digit)

You convert that to a word in your head.

Five is a word

when I write 5, in your head you say our word for this digit.

P-

Originally posted by Traveling Again
five is totally not a word. it is absolutely a number. whether it's letters, well, that's debatable.
my head converts nothing. it only see the facts. when i say the word 5, i'm really only saying
a number, because numbers and words are of no relation, unless you bring parentheses into the
discussion, then you can maybe argue a relation. but p ...[text shortened]... ords. 5 in my head is a number, because 5 is a number.

try this one on for size: XL hat.

Originally posted by Traveling Again
five is totally not a word. it is absolutely a number. whether it's letters, well, that's debatable.
my head converts nothing. it only see the facts. when i say the word 5, i'm really only saying
a number, because numbers and words are of no relation, unless you bring parentheses into the
discussion, then you can maybe argue a relation. but p ...[text shortened]... ords. 5 in my head is a number, because 5 is a number.

try this one on for size: XL hat.

Originally posted by Phlabibit
This is Five

". . . . ."

This is the digit "5"

This is how you spell the word that we easily understand "Five"

Five is the word. If you didn't convert to a word your stuck with the quantity:

". . . . ."

Originally posted by Traveling Again
this is the number "five."

this is also the number "5."

this is contemporary techno-art representing, in a linear and non-negative space sense,
humanity's slow trek towards a world-wide ban of whole milk " . . . . ."