It depends on your font. If you write nine with a squiggle (9) then they're the same weight but if you write nine with a stick (q) then it's lighter. Because six is always written with a squiggle, all the nines would be heavier than all the sixes. However, since nine is often used in maths textbooks to teach preschoolers column addition, it is much more common so, while the relative numerical mass of nine < the relative numerical mass of six, nine is more common than six so therefore the mass of all the nines in the world added together would be > the mass of all the sixes in the world added together.
Which number is heavier 6 or 9?
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It depends on your font. If you write nine with a squiggle (9) then they're the same weight but if you write nine with a stick (q) then it's lighter. Because six is always written with a squiggle, all the nines would be heavier than all the sixes. However, since nine is often used in maths textbooks to teach preschoolers column addition, it is much more common so, while the relative numerical mass of nine < the relative numerical mass of six, nine is more common than six so therefore the mass of all the nines in the world added together would be > the mass of all the sixes in the world added together.