Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?

splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

10k? 100k? A million?
I am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or “no longer mean anything”.
Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.

You’re quite optimistic. I recall from old Psych classes that visualization breaks down even before double digits, so the 5-7 range. Don’t have any references at hand so I might be misremembering it, but now I’m curious too and see if I can find anything in my notes.

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