The þ in my username is the Old English letter þorn. It is pronounced the same as the 'th' sound in English.
As you might guess, my given name is Anthony. It is entirely appropriate to address me as such if you're too lazy to type Alt-0254.
| 0 | white | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | black | |
| 2 | dark brown | |
| 3 | dark blue | |
| 4 | green | |
| 5 | bright yellow | |
| 6 | red-orange | |
| 7 | purple | |
| 8 | light brown | |
| 9 | black | |
| 10 | white |
Colors are numbers
I have grapheme-color synesthesia, in that my mind forms an association between numbers and colors. My earliest recollection of the association is the simple equation 6 + 4 = 10, which just "made sense" to me since orange/red + green = white. There seems to be some component related to an additive color system, but it's not definite. The mapping below for these small numbers is especially strong and has been stable. 3-7 seem to be somewhat related to the colors of the rainbow, something I haven't noticed until now.
Higher numbers don't normally evoke a strong sense of color, but may be a composite of the colors for each digit or dominated by one digit. Digits in the teens are the same as above, only "lighter" because white (10) + a color = lighter color. 42 is mostly green with brown on the edges, like a Granny Smith apple or something. I perceive a number like 487 as "mostly" green, but with a strong sense of brown and a lesser component of purple, all simultaneously. 8268 is nearly all brown with only the slight tinge of red.
Normally, I consider it to be slightly useful or insignificant. Other people have commented that I have unusual capacity for remembering numbers, which may or may not be related. (I've been known to recite a 7-digit phone number hours after hearing it for the first time, without being tasked to remember it.) The only time it's proved to be a nuisance is reading the value of resistors using a color coding scheme that conflicts with my ingrained associations. I have the order memorized (roy-g-biv-gray-white), but associating those colors with numbers requires writing them down and numbering them.
To Do
- Check up on serenity definition in a few days and propose deletion if no one is interested in improving it.
- Ditto for The Gufs.