Once you "thought" of a number it then became more functional for this exercise then all other seven digit numbers. In fact no other numbers except that one you were thinking of would have fit the criteria for being "the number you were thinking of."
Entirely true, but that doesn't make the numbers themselves anything more than what they are - which are numbers.
I could think up a meta-number which is "all the number-strings everywhere, ever" and it wouldn't mean a thing, but it would still fit the criteria of "guess what I'm thinking of".
the point I'm trying to make, and strangely enough you seem to agree with me although I'll bet you say you don't, is that information is information whether it's understood or not.
with your two original numbers, the only "meaning" of the 1-800 number was what YOU gave it. I could equally say that, since I can't call a 1-800 from Europe, but I *can* call Ireland (which is the 26 number) that the 26 number is the "information" and the 1-800 is not.
If you didn't mean it that way, then (seeing as I *did* jump in) it's entirely possible I've misunderstood what you meant, but you seemed to be saying that because YOU found your number to be useful, that the numbers themselves within the string were somehow imbued with more value than the other number string - which I don't think is a valid assumption.
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