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What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 or 3?

Posted on January 28, 2015November 25, 2017 by Mr. Lakhaney

“A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.”

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2012/thinking-logarithmically-1005

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