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Number Names and Words
Number Names George Lakoff has pointed out that we do not normally distinguish numbers from what might be more properly be called number names. (Lakoff 1989) The most common number naming systems adopt base-10 and use ten single-digit number names, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Classification, Enumeration, Logic
Tagged Architecture, Classification, Enumeration, Logic
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What Counts
Numerical Abilities As well as being able to roughly compare continuous quantities, humans and animals of various sorts share a method of recognising small numbers of objects or sequences of events that is independent of language. See Subitising and Counting Ants Both … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brain Physiology, Embodiment, Enumeration, Logic
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Embodiment, Enumeration, Logic
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Counting Ants
Counting Ants This is not about how to count ants but how ants count. The post follows research by Zhanna Reznikova and Boris Ryabko that investigates the numerical capacities of ants using ideas from Information Theory such as Shannon entropy and Kolmogorov complexity. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Enumeration, Randomness
Tagged Architecture, Enumeration, Randomness
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Cafetières, Disorder, Chaos and Anarchy
At breakfast this morning my wife spilt the coffee because she hadn’t aligned the strainer in the lid of a Bodum cafetière with its pouring sprout. I suggest this is a stupid design, and “why aren’t the strainer holes all … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Design, Haptic Objects, Objects, Products
Tagged Aesthetics, Architecture, Design, Haptic Objects, Products
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William Tutte’s Hidden Past
If William Tutte is remembered at all by architects, it is for his contribution to solving the problem of Squaring the Square . (Tutte 1958) A solution using Graph Theory and Kirchhoff’s Laws for electrical flow in wires that was subsequently used in Philip … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design Methods, Geometry, Logic, Tiling
Tagged Aperiodic Tiling, Architecture, Design Methods, Geometry, Logic, Tiling, Turing Machines
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Missing Pullover Found
My long lost 1970s pullover, slip-over, or perhaps more properly 70s tank-top, has turned up at the back of a cupboard. Last year we had turned the house upside down looking for it. The design is apparently based on the colour … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Design, Enumeration, Knitting
Tagged Aesthetics, Architecture, Design, Design Methods, Enumeration, Knitting, Randomness
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Spatial Representation of Number
Francis Galton “…this peculiarity is found so far as my observations have extended, in about 1 out of every 30 adult males or 15 females. It consists in the sudden and automatic appearance of a vivid and invariable “Form” in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brain Physiology, Embodiment, Enumeration
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Embodiment, Enumeration
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Five Finger Exercises
Written and spoken numbers are represented differently. In English numbers are usually written with Arabic numerals or as a transliteration of the spoken version, for example 342 or three hundred and forty two. Rod counting provides a written representation of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brain Physiology, Enumeration
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Enumeration, Logic
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Chocolate Fireguards
A very short post on Chocolate Fireguards, which as the name suggests are objects which subvert their own function. The first example is a real fireguard, though not one actually made of chocolate. It is an example of an object … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Brain Physiology, Design, Design Methods, Logic, Objects
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Classification, Design, Design Methods, Logic, Objects
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Subitising
The school report of Emily, our 4 year old grandchild, said that she could subitise up to the number 6, and I had no idea what this meant. Subitising is a technical term that comes from the Latin root subito … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Architecture, Brain Physiology, Design, Design Methods, Enumeration, Geometry, Randomness
Tagged Architecture, Brain Physiology, Design, Enumeration, Geometry, Randomness
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