Are we weakening certain numbers by overuse?
For example. We use the numbers 1 to 100 all over the place, many times, each day. And some numbers over 100 are used very often, as well. In addition, we add numbers, multiply them, subtract them and divide them. But usually it is the smaller numbers. Higher numbers, like in the billions or trillions, while being talked about regularly, aren't being used very much in our common daily lives.
The point is, are we weakening certain numbers simply by overusing them? Are other numbers stronger just because we don't use them nearly as much? Or does the frequent using of numbers strengthen them, like when you lift weights you strengthen certain muscles?
For example. Bitcoin uses complex alphanumeric number groups. Bitcoin actually turns letters into digits. Bitcoin is successful. Maybe Bitcoin is successful because it uses fresh, unused "numbers" in its addresses... numbers set in ways that they would never be used otherwise, and so they are "fresh" numbers, and ready to do all kinds of things. And they are fresh because nobody ever uses them more than once or twice, or a few times in transactions... not because of their complexity.
And take the American Dollar. Maybe it is strong because of the long serial number on each dollar bill. Maybe if all the serial numbers on the various dollar bills were reduced to a number under 1000 (numbers we use daily, very much, and are all worn out because of it), maybe the U.S. dollar would lose all of its strength, because numbers under 1000 are essentially used all over the place, and are all worn out.
Maybe our whole understanding of how and why the universe works is skewed, and it all really has to do with how much certain numbers are used, and how they are weakened by overuse. Maybe larger numbers actually hold the smaller numbers in place because the larger ones would collapse if the smaller ones were allowed to fail, so the larger ones don't let the smaller ones fail, because the larger ones don't want to die, so to speak.
What do you think?
