Numbers Number Numbers
I decided I wanted to explore and learn new stuff. I learned that our local college was having an exhibit showing off different stuff. The Science Department and Art Department were both having exhibits. I went off to the local college and look at the Science Department.
I found the Science Department was using poster boards to explain stuff. Poster boards can be useful to explain stuff so I decided to look at the material on the poster boards. The poster boards were on the wall.
I saw one poster board called “Normal Number System”, you know the number system that people learned in school like 1,2,3,4,5, and so on – very good tool and glad people learn it and use it
Then somehow, I took a wrong turn and ended up in the Art department. The Science Department and Art Department are right next to each other. I enjoy learning new stuff so decided to look at the items in the Art Department. The Art Department was also using poster boards to describe stuff. The poster boards were on the wall.
The first poster board in the Art section called “Hexadecimal Numbers” and the poster board had mixture of numbers and letters and the poster board showed creativity going through an explanation of words how letters are numbers like “A” is 10, “B” is “11”, and so on until you get to 16 or something like that; will admit the artist had a lot of imagination.
Anyway, went to the next poster board and the poster board called “Binary Numbers” a strange piece; had a white poster board that had a bunch of “0” and “1” on it. Which is fine, I found the piece to be somewhat boring, but will admit the artist had a lot of imagination.
I do not mind looking at these two poster boards, I do try to expand my mind when it comes to artwork, and try to experience new things; troubled the artist for “Hexadecimal Numbers” and “Binary Numbers” seem to communicate in their artwork somehow connected to reality and was not artwork; I do not like mislabeling of claiming something that was science when it was art. I thought I may complain to the Art Department but I decided to go to the next art piece.
The next art piece called “Imaginary Numbers” and my concerns were taken care of – this art piece was at least true in labeling the numbers were imaginary created by the artist without claiming the numbers were connected to real life. The art piece had a variety of stuff like small “i”, some sort of cure wave line that is hard to describe. A person really has to see the art piece to see the creativity involved. The art piece also showed small numbers and equal signs. – the piece looked interesting – I would probably add a few more symbols like smiley faces, trees, and mountains myself but I am not the artist. And the artist used a lot of imagination. And I appreciate the truth that this artist used to describe the art piece, the numbers are “imaginary”.
(attempted humor here, hexadecimal, binary and imaginary numbers are real and used in science for those who may not know). (and yes, my non mathematical brain cannot understand it, the numbers written on a page might as well be art work to me).