{"comments":[{"comment":{"id":17144777,"creator_id":298828,"post_id":31080466,"content":">10k? 100k? A million? \n>I am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or “no longer mean anything”. \n>Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind. \n \nYou're quite optimistic. I recall from old Psych classes that visualization breaks down even **before double digits**, so the 5-9 range. Don't have any references at hand so I might be misremembering it, but now I'm curious too and will see if I can find anything in my notes.\n","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T13:35:22.409921Z","updated":"2025-07-29T13:35:52.597563Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://infosec.pub/comment/17213175","local":false,"path":"0.17144777","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":298828,"name":"splendoruranium","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-26T22:22:16.311880Z","actor_id":"https://infosec.pub/u/splendoruranium","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":26},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? A million?\r\n\r\nI am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or \"no longer mean anything\".\r\n\r\nTry visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.\r\n\r\nEdit: What I've gathered so far from the answers:\r\n\r\nVisualizing: <10","creator_id":19852318,"community_id":7,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-07-29T13:12:26Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://fedia.io/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/2490990","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":7,"name":"nostupidquestions","title":"No Stupid Questions","description":"No such thing. 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My mind has the ability to recognize astonishingly broad temporal intervals with remarkable accuracy. I can express the interval using numbers. Does that mean I am able to fully comprehend a number like in \"90 minutes?\"\n\nI am able to remember sets of things, and distinguish all of the members of that set, up to very large numbers. It would not be unusual for a teacher to be able to call to mind every one of a couple hundred students currently attending their school. If I can manage a set of a particular size in my mind (whether or not I can *visualize* all the members of that set simultaneously) do I not have some comprehension of that number? What if every student is assigned an integer from a contiguous series, and I can remember each student's id number?\n\nSome people *cannot visualize at all.* Do they fail to comprehend every number?","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:58:19.006667Z","updated":"2025-07-29T15:00:43.111803Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ca/comment/18037084","local":false,"path":"0.17146499","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":1060,"name":"jerkface","display_name":"Jerkface (any/all)","avatar":"https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8b7fb493-cae9-4db8-b1c4-aa8de0dde828.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-06T11:00:47.448460Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ca/u/jerkface","bio":"My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@salixbipedis:matrix.org","bot_account":false,"instance_id":17},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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The first apple inside my head would have killed me already.\n\nI can visualize 1 apple im my mouth.\n\nI can visualize 2 apples im my mouth, but with some struggle.\n\nI cannot visualize 10 or 100 or 10,000 apples im my mouth.\n\nSo my answer is 2. Every human can grasp that number. Above 2, not everybody can.\n\n","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T13:42:31.844250Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://feddit.org/comment/8049647","local":false,"path":"0.17144930","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":14414884,"name":"Zwuzelmaus","banned":false,"published":"2024-12-14T09:09:30.680096Z","actor_id":"https://feddit.org/u/Zwuzelmaus","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":4344},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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I can define it, I can say what's less or more than it. Is that comprehension?\n\nYou could take three counters and throw them on a table in front of me and I could intuitively tell you there are 3 counters without individually counting each one. If you threw 20 counters on the table I would have to count all of them individually before I could tell you how many there are. Is that comprehension? \n\nIn my opinion any number that could be uniquely described counts as being comprehended by a human. For example I think people can grasp the concept of pi despite not being able to really grasp the infinite nature of it. So any number large enough where you couldn't uniquely describe it to a person. Which is a pretty useless definition if we're being honest.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:16:33.540638Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://aussie.zone/comment/18012990","local":false,"path":"0.17145649","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":17640047,"name":"Fleur_","banned":false,"published":"2025-04-23T01:00:12.069270Z","actor_id":"https://aussie.zone/u/Fleur_","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":18},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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We summarize, categorize, lump etc so the concept of numbers is understood. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:29:36.423017Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.zip/comment/20473521","local":false,"path":"0.17145922","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":18833869,"name":"the_q","banned":false,"published":"2025-06-05T21:51:28.340065Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.zip/u/the_q","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":76},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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After that we start “chunking” where each group becomes its own conceptual object.\n\nThis is why phone numbers without the area code have 7 digits in North America.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:05:54.087654Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ca/comment/18036037","local":false,"path":"0.17144777.17145425","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":10743,"name":"adespoton","display_name":"Em Adespoton","avatar":"https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/431c8ad3-81f9-45ce-a635-3b28d8cbc99e.mp4","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-04T03:55:29.185619Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ca/u/adespoton","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@adespoton:matrix.org","bot_account":false,"instance_id":17},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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When I see a number of stuff in front of me I can quickly grasp how many there are up to about 7. 8 already becomes two fours. 9 is 3x3 or 4+5 depending on how the objects are clustered.\n\nThough I think I can *estimate* up to about a thousand. Usually by comparing to stuff I have already seen in that ballpark.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:42:27.953750Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://swg-empire.de/comment/6646548","local":false,"path":"0.17144777.17146210","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":162241,"name":"bjoern_tantau","display_name":"Björn Tantau","avatar":"https://swg-empire.de/pictrs/image/dd430302-9e5e-41fc-86e0-499cca7bbe50.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-07-08T12:24:35.631041Z","actor_id":"https://swg-empire.de/u/bjoern_tantau","bio":"https://bjoern-tantau.de/\n\nhttps://boern.itch.io/diarrhea-4\n\nMastodon: @blog@bjoern-tantau.de","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":1252},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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I thought you could split numbers into \"bundles\" (1 bundle of 5 apples, 10 bundles of those, for example). \r\n\r\nEdit: Or imagine 5 and then start doubling over and over.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T13:41:26Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://fedia.io/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/2490990/-/comment/11715056","local":false,"path":"0.17144777.17144900","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":19852318,"name":"Nebula","display_name":"Nebula","avatar":"https://fedia.io/media/38/16/38166a1b7abda41502c3962f21d49743192c4105807774c4fba6cdf028566f29.png","banned":false,"published":"2025-07-17T18:05:58Z","actor_id":"https://fedia.io/u/Nebula","bio":"Fluent in dumdum, German & English \nMod of [@surrealism](https://fedia.io/m/surrealism) \nProfile banner by cmdrkitten","local":false,"banner":"https://fedia.io/media/26/e5/26e5936ceac8c807217f91270d7b504318fd1f9764edba3305acefaf716fcd13.gif","deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":143},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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I don't think I can go any higher though","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:47:52.425146Z","updated":"2025-07-29T14:50:12.773527Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ml/comment/20140365","local":false,"path":"0.17144777.17146293","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":28934,"name":"SubArcticTundra","avatar":"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/bfb28ffe-7f8e-4f5a-b53e-ae6d94966cee.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-03T00:01:46.480380Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ml/u/SubArcticTundra","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":19},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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There’s no difference between imagining 5 googolplex and 5 dragons.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:09:34.966948Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ca/comment/18036104","local":false,"path":"0.17144777.17144900.17145494","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":10743,"name":"adespoton","display_name":"Em Adespoton","avatar":"https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/431c8ad3-81f9-45ce-a635-3b28d8cbc99e.mp4","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-04T03:55:29.185619Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ca/u/adespoton","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@adespoton:matrix.org","bot_account":false,"instance_id":17},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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Miller's Law of short-term memory is we can store 7 +/- 2 items at a time, depending how complex they are. \n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:34:54.417184Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://midwest.social/comment/18978673","local":false,"path":"0.17144777.17145425.17146050","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":1126146,"name":"Neuromancer49","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-20T14:50:12.885145Z","actor_id":"https://midwest.social/u/Neuromancer49","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":5},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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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). \n\n\"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.\n\nIn 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) ","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-30T20:18:11.219541Z","updated":"2025-07-30T20:26:03.409235Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/18531044","local":false,"path":"0.17144930.17175153","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":4933,"name":"froh42","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T14:31:47.440715Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/froh42","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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I am sure you can grasp the concept of 3. Like 3 cars waiting on a light, or 3 slices of pizza.\n\nIf the limit was visualizing, the answer would be zero, since some folks can't visualize at all. ","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:21:16.901586Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/18505313","local":false,"path":"0.17144930.17145728","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":8670,"name":"kinsnik","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T21:53:14.035579Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/kinsnik","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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Even more so when I was deliberately unprecise, or not so serious at all 😉","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-29T14:31:56.659564Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://feddit.org/comment/8050541","local":false,"path":"0.17144930.17145728.17145977","distinguished":false,"language_id":0},"creator":{"id":14414884,"name":"Zwuzelmaus","banned":false,"published":"2024-12-14T09:09:30.680096Z","actor_id":"https://feddit.org/u/Zwuzelmaus","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":4344},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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A million?\r\n\r\nI am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or \"no longer mean anything\".\r\n\r\nTry visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.\r\n\r\nEdit: What I've gathered so far from the answers:\r\n\r\nVisualizing: <10","creator_id":19852318,"community_id":7,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-07-29T13:12:26Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://fedia.io/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/2490990","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":7,"name":"nostupidquestions","title":"No Stupid Questions","description":"No such thing. 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There’s a low limit on how many distinct objects we can perceive visually at once but that’s not entirely the same as what numbers we can grasp and comprehend.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-30T21:40:29.227525Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.world/comment/18532409","local":false,"path":"0.17146499.17176608","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":2011,"name":"scarabic","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-12T04:02:05.417338Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.world/u/scarabic","local":false,"deleted":false,"bot_account":false,"instance_id":2},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? 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But that doesn't mean we don't comprehend what eight is.\n\nNumbers are DEEP. You can't just know things about a number, you have to discover them empirically, experimentally. Every number has essentially infinite properties and you can't know everything about a number, but you get a familiarity with them. Still, even the simplest numbers have the capacity to surprise in the right context.","removed":false,"published":"2025-07-31T12:05:41.047583Z","deleted":false,"ap_id":"https://lemmy.ca/comment/18074296","local":false,"path":"0.17146499.17176608.17186982","distinguished":false,"language_id":37},"creator":{"id":1060,"name":"jerkface","display_name":"Jerkface (any/all)","avatar":"https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8b7fb493-cae9-4db8-b1c4-aa8de0dde828.jpeg","banned":false,"published":"2023-06-06T11:00:47.448460Z","actor_id":"https://lemmy.ca/u/jerkface","bio":"My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me","local":false,"deleted":false,"matrix_user_id":"@salixbipedis:matrix.org","bot_account":false,"instance_id":17},"post":{"id":31080466,"name":"What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?","body":"10k? 100k? A million?\r\n\r\nI am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or \"no longer mean anything\".\r\n\r\nTry visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.\r\n\r\nEdit: What I've gathered so far from the answers:\r\n\r\nVisualizing: <10","creator_id":19852318,"community_id":7,"removed":false,"locked":false,"published":"2025-07-29T13:12:26Z","deleted":false,"nsfw":false,"ap_id":"https://fedia.io/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/2490990","local":false,"language_id":0,"featured_community":false,"featured_local":false},"community":{"id":7,"name":"nostupidquestions","title":"No Stupid Questions","description":"No such thing. 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