David Ho on Nostr: I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of ...
I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire).
One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.
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