Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day agoAs an average, I usually see the number 7 bandied around. After that we start “chunking” where each group becomes its own conceptual object.
This is why phone numbers without the area code have 7 digits in North America.
Neuromancer49@midwest.social 1 day ago
That’s not quite the same thing - the 7 digit phone number has more to do with short-term memory capacity than visual perception. Miller’s Law of short-term memory is we can store 7 +/- 2 items at a time, depending how complex they are.
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