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
I am bordering on aphantasia, i can’t visualize an apple at all, just as an abstract drawing.
I can visualize numbers and graphs, for example 1-6 are easy with the symbols of a dice, 7 like six with a dot in the middle, 8 two rows of fours and 9 as a three by threw grid.
The thing is, I never visualize things literally, it’s always abstract symbols - and understanding “more” requires better symbols.
Decimal system is also just a symbol, I can easily keep numbers in my mind up to six or seven digits.
Bigger, I have a bit of trouble with the scientific notation - I don’t have concepts for numbers beyond 10^9, even these rather are a thousand million for me, conceptually. And speaking English right now doesn’t help, as I’m from a big ladder country while the US is small ladder: 1 Billion (German) = 1000 billion (US).
“Hardcoded” numbers in the brain go to 4 or 5 or so, everything else is abstractions. piled on abstractions and how used you are to handling these.
In computers you deal with bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes. I visualize the difference between 1kb and 1Tb, as I have experienced each of these stages. (My first computer had 1kb, the second one 64… it was growing exponentially for years)