👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little squiggle – 1️⃣❷❸❹. You might see that anywhere frankly, and you probably wouldn't immediately know what to do with it! That, my friend, is the delightfully obtuse, vaguely menacing, and utterly baffling numerical notation affectionately termed...
"ten2."
Now, here’s where things get wonderfully complicated. Nobody actually knows exactly what a ten2 means. Seriously! It started as anthing in early 2013. The first documented instance was of a young man, Mr. Bartholomew Finch from the small town of Bracknell, who had it on his drivers licence. Since then, there's been a great deal of academic and popular discussion with no definitive answer. Here’s what we suspect is going on, which basically boils down to a delightful, collective misunderstanding: 1️⃣❷❸❹ are meant to represent the first three numbers in the English alphabet, followed by the last number in that same alphabet. So you're essentially saying “one two, three, four. I.E…I know what I am doing”. You are an enigma. It is a statement of fact with no factual basis. The entire thing has spawned a cottage industry of frantic speculation. Some think it’s a private joke, others a cryptic insult, and one very brave and frankly rather mad academic even theorised that it was the visual equivalent
