Gente de letras » Free Press http://gentedeletras.com ... comienzos de libros ... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:40:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Born on a Blue Day (Daniel Tammet) http://gentedeletras.com/born-on-a-blue-day-daniel-tammet/ http://gentedeletras.com/born-on-a-blue-day-daniel-tammet/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:07:00 +0000 Fer http://pseudobloggers.com/gentedeletras/?p=154 … I was born on January 31, 1979 -a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number 9 or the sound of loud voices arguing. I like my birth date, because of the way I’m able to visualize most of the numbers in it as smooth and round shapes, similar to pebbles on a beach. That’s because they are prime numbers: 31, 19, 197, 97, 79 and 1979 are all divisible only by themselves and 1. I can recognize every prime up to 9,973 by their “pebble-like” quality. It’s just the way my brain works …

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