By the numbers
Daniel Tammett
10,000: Numbers Tammett, an autistic savant, experiences as colors, textures and pictures in his head
37: Number Tammett experiences as lumpy like porridge
89: Number he experiences as falling snow
7: Number of languages spoken by Tammett
1: Number of weeks it takes him to learn a new language
22,514: Decimal places of pi Tammett recited from memory, breaking the European record in 2004
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