Picture of Pagoda at Gokokuji temple, Mejirodai, Bunkyo Japan
Numbers are such an essential thing that helps us to count, calculate, measure or label things (Ref: Wikipedia). Although it is impossible to explain everything about the number, here, I will present my observation. I find it essentially everywhere, we use it for several things, for example, we count years, weeks, days, time and so on.
In the context of a living being, the lifetime of survival, number of heartbeats, pH of blood or body fluid. Isn't that all fascinating? Such sort of numeral quantification has traditionally assisted many scientists to build a constructive intuition and understand life.
Another example is the picture shown above. This picture posses a specific number of pixels that spreads across its width and height. Since the image is coloured, we additionally have 3 channels RGB (Red, Green, Blue). Each of these pixels in this picture is assigned with an intensity varying from 0-255. Therefore, it does represent a 3D matrix of cells that contains numbers with a value between 0 and 255. Isn't that interesting, any layman people may not imagine it.
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