Number

10,000: the things of the Tao
1000: the names of Shiva
1001: the number of nights
100: the times I've told you
99: the names of Allah
50: ways to leave your lover
Countless: things to do
-- Sadie Plant 2017
----Numeracy.“[numerical] calculation mobilizes a thinking that is directly and effectively exterior,indexing the machinic dispersion or anorganic distribution of the number. No soonerin the head than on fingers and pebbles, counting always happens on the outside.” 9 Land distinguishes between numeracy and mathematics with reference to Deleuzeand Guattari’s distinction in A Thousand Plateaus between the “Oecumenon” and the“Planomenon.” [Vincent Le 2019]
numeral, integer, figure, digit; character, symbol; whole number, decimal number, decimal, unit; cardinal number, ordinal number; Roman number, Arabic number; rarecipher
----Quantity; Measure