"Humanity's fascination with numbers is ancient and complex. Our present relationship with numbers reveals both a highly developed tool and a highly developed user, working together to measure, create, and predict both ourselves and the world around us. But like every symbiotic couple, the tool we would like to believe is separate from us (and thus objective) is actually an intricate reflection of our thoughts, interests, and capabilities."
— The Secret Lives of Numbers, by New Radio and Performing Arts
(recommended on the Frivolous Linkages page at Daniel Gilbert's Harvard website)
Other linkages:
New York Lottery on October 16: Midday 706, Evening 684.
Related material — 7/06, 2007, and post no. 684 in this journal.
The above "Secret Lives of Numbers" quotation was suggested by Gilbert's "Magic by Numbers" op-ed piece in today's New York Times—
