Some More Numbers

So I was playing a game the other night, and in this game, there was a mechanic where you could sell things, in groups of 1, 2, 5, or 10. And well, this got me thinking. And after a while, I got distracted and completely forgot about what I was thinking about. However, when I went to bed that night, and as I was laying there, I remembered, and thought about it some more. This is what I came up with.

5 is actually an even number. Not in the mathematical sense of even numbers, no, in that way it is most definitely an odd number. However, in the sense of perception, I perceive 5 to be an even number. (My logic for this is not sound in any terms, however, everyone I have conferred with about this has tended to agree.) When you look at an even number, they look smooth, and just pleasant to look at. When you look at an odd number, you see them as brash, with corners and hard edges whereas even number do not have these visual characteristics. Sure, my whole argument may be based on the aesthetics of the numbers themselves, but I do believe that it is a valid point. (And no, I am not going to argue that an upside-down 5 is a 2.) 

Because of this, I have a proposition. Instead of changing the classification of 5 from an odd to an even number, because it does not work in terms of mathematics, I humbly suggest that we classify it as we do the letter "y." The letter "y" has a constant identity crisis and does not know whether or not it is a vowel or a consonant. Because of this, and phonetics, it can be both because it has properties of both. Just like the 5 has the mathematical properties of being an odd number, but the aesthetic property of the even numbers.

Numbers

Previously, I have written a poem about the thoughts that keep me awake at night. It is the poem titled "Deafened." In this poem, I briefly describe some of the loudest things of a particular day, and how they are all brash and cacophonous, but yet the loudest part of the day is in the silence when my thoughts are keeping me awake. Well, I decided to listen to these thoughts last night, and after watching this video by Vsauce, I had a thought.

In this video, Michael tells us about the Banach - Tarski Paradox, and how that there are an infinite number of numbers. And that how there is something called "countable infinity", which is the number of integers because you could technically count forever, and something called "uncountable infinity" which is the amount of real numbers between two integers, such as 0 and 1. Michael goes into it way deeper than I ever could, and because of this I suggest watching the video before continuing on with this.

My thought is this. There are only 10 numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Every number past nine is just a sequence of the original ten numbers. However, this also lets the strings of sequences of numbers be infinite in length. At the same time, I believe that all of the real numbers between integers are configured in the same pattern as the infinite sequences of numbers.

I realize that this may not make sense, but remember, I am not a math major, and have no idea if this is actually already a theory or not. All I do know is that this is a thought which kept me awake last night, and that I am unable to put my thoughts into proper words. This is one of those things in which I will keep with me for a while until I am able to ask somebody who knows more than I do about it. On that note, anybody know of anyone with a PhD in math or theoretical math that would be willing to have a conversation?