Sources of Symbols
Numbers As Words
If we're backed into a corner, some concepts can be translated into numbers.
Since we're setting out to create a visual language rather than a mathematical
one, I'm making this solution the second-to-last resort -- just ahead of
phonetic transcription.
- People (birthdays)
- Abraham Lincoln: 18090212
- Charles Darwin: 18090212
- Britney Spears: 19821202
- Henry Ford: 18630730
- Jesus Christ: 00001225
- Places
- London: 51° N, 0° W
- New York City: 41° N, 71° W
- Baghdad: 33° N, 44° W
- Delaware: 1st state
- Texas: 28th state
- Hawaii: Five-O
- Washington, DC: 202 (area code)
- New Mexico: 505 (area code)
- Moldova: 373 (phone code)
- Colors (electromagnetic wavelength)
- Violet: 410 nanometers
- Blue: 475
- Green: 510
- Yellow: 570
- Red: 680
- Chemicals
- Hydrogen: 1 (atomic number)
- Oxygen: 8 (atomic number)
- Water: (1*2)+8 [H2O]
- Sulphuric Acid: (1*2)+8+(16*4) [H2SO4]
- Dewey Decimal
- Biology: 574
- Golf: 796.352
- Islam: 297
- Motion pictures: 791.43
- Police
Codes
- OK: 10-4
- Location: 10-20
- Drugs: 226
- Armed Robbery: 211
- US Code (Titles)
- Agriculture: 7
- Crime: 18
- Mining: 30
- Money: 31
- Events
- terrorism: 9/11
- conquest: 1066
- independence: 7/4/1776
- Misc. Slang
- discard: 86
- information: 411
- emergency: 911
- everything: 9 yards
- when a bee loves a flower very much: 69
- to go medieval on someone: 476-1453 on your 455
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Last updated October 2004
Copyright © 2004 Matthew White