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.

Edit: What I’ve gathered so far from the answers:

Visualizing: <10

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    As 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.