Mary wrote a book of 1536 pages
She numbered all the pages by hand.
How many times did she write the digit 6?
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256 will be the answer for the given question
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I have a very different take on this question. My answer: Once. On the sixth page she wrote the number six. No other page was number six and she never wrote six again..
The other answers sought to find how many times she wrote the character, the NUMERAL 6. That is, the character shaped thu me
Let me explain. When she wrote the number sixteen (16), she did NOT write the number six (6). She wrote the NUMERAL 1 followed by the NUMERAL 6. The NUMERAL is a character that is used to represent the abstract concept of a number or of a digit - a part of a number necessary, but not sufficient to identify the number. The number Six is a quantity answering rhe question: “How Many?” The numeral 6 is a representation of that quantity but is Itself only a character not the number itself. The 6 in 62 is not a quantity, not the number six, but here represents the number sixty by virtue of it's placement. .
She could have used Roman numerals when numbering the pages - The sixth page would be labled: VI. When she reached the sixty second page, she wrote LXII. Nowhere is there a six, a 6 or even a VI which, as we know, represents six in this system. This is certainly not writing the number six. And and neither is 666. Although you are writing the character, 6, three times, you have not written the NUMBER 6 - which represents a quantity, six. Her final page, the one thousand five hundred thirty sixth one could have been labeled, MDXXXVI and not a six in sight.
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