People Who Were Born Blind Visualize Numbers from Right to Left

People who are congenitally blind tend to count numbers from right to left as they map the position of objects relative to themselves.

”Remembering and representing numbers is an important skill, and the foundation for mental maths. Visually impaired people are just as good, if not better at mathematics than sighted people - Georgian Maths Professor and Royal Society Fellow, Nicholas Saunderson as one famous example.”

Deemed the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem, Saunderson may have been able to achieve this through his unconventional mental representation of numbers. A great example of how the blind view things differently, thereby creating or working in extraordinary ways.

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Image source:http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2014/03/28/mental-number-line/