• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Yes, it’s this little thing called context, thresholds, and relative magnitude.

    If your brain is only evolved to process numbers up to a hundred or two, then everything 10000+ is similarly processed through abstractions rather than your brain being able to directly comprehend and compare them.

    If instead of asking a guffawing question, you actually tried to point out why my reasoning was flawed, you may have realized those basic aspects of how language and reasoning work on your own.

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      6 hours ago

      Relative magnitude, really? You’re undermining your own point by not using a representative example and then calling your example a relative magnitude to the others.

      210 billion to 250 billion = ~19% increase

      75,000 to a million = ~12,000% increase

      Nanometer to micrometer = ~99,000% increase

      Nanometer to 5 millimeters = ~499,999,900% increase

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        5 hours ago

        Notice how all of those numbers are substantially larger or smaller, by many orders of magnitude, than a couple of hundred.

        Are you intentionally trying to avoid understanding what I’m writing?

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          5 hours ago

          210 billion is not substantially smaller than 250 billion. Are you intentionally trying to miss the point?