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Originally Posted by MikeD
I didn't read the whole thread.
My wife's first BS was in education. She was told that most people are are not literate wrt numbers and that, to most people, all numbers over 10,000 are just "big."
That really stuck with me when I heard it. My experience with others has shown this to be the case.
I tried to Google this but was inundated with responses like "People also ask - How many hundreds in a thousand?"
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I have heard that also, and a bit more is that almost nobody really understands over 1 million... IOW, that is just too large of a number to really get your brain around... sure, we can do the math and say it is 1,000 $1,000.... but that is math...
If you used $1 bills, $1 million would be about 40 cubic feet... basically a pallet of bills just over 3 feet high...
Edit to add...
Found a pic I remember seeing here before.... shows really big numbers...