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![brendanwerth Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1731737034908172288.png) Brendan Werth [@brendanwerth](/creator/twitter/brendanwerth) on x XX followers
Created: 2025-07-18 13:55:31 UTC

ChatGPT can explain it better than me:

When I write a “6” made out of '5' characters, I’m using the visual glyph of the symbol '5' — not the numeric value X.

But even that glyph isn’t “just a 5” — it’s stored as the ASCII code 00110101, not the binary number 00000101, which is how the actual number X is represented internally.

So if you’re saying my “6 made out of 5s” requires interpretation — well, all symbols do. You’re already interpreting the ASCII binary for '5' as the visual “5” character. I’m just stacking those symbols into a shape.

In that sense, it’s meta-5 — a “6” composed not of the number five, but of the semiotic atoms of five-ness


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