We are all numbers. For someone who is counting the people on the street we are numbers.
For someone, one dollar (number) will be a lot today, for someone it's nothing.
Number value is lost.
Every day I count the stairs to the house. It will not change, but I still count them. Even this is bunch of numbers that our computer turns into words. They can be of important value, but not to all of us.
So we all have different view of numbers.
I did not mess up with the numbers until I was forced to start thinking about them, and I can tell you, my head hurts from them.