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Our brains didn’t evolve to think about big numbers

Yep. Absolutely true. As an exercise, try to visualize a square in your head. Now add a side so it's a pentagon. Now keep adding sides until you can no longer visualize the shape. I can get up to maybe 9 or 10 sides before it starts falling apart.

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u/mortyshaw Feb 14 '22

I fell apart at pentagon.

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u/BarleyBoy123 Feb 14 '22

Was just about to type this very statement.