On 06/03/2012 19:13, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> I was thinking of how numbers are mentally approximated, and the fact
> that (at least to me) it seems there's a sense in which 1 and 1000 are
> more "mentally distinct" than a billion and a trillion, even though both
> differ by a factor of a thousand and the latter are far more different
> in absolute terms.

That's funny, I could have sworn I said the same thing yesterday... ;-)

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