Comprehension of government expenditures requires understanding immense monetary amounts, yet numbers of such magnitude are difficult to understand. Our findings highlight the implications of basic ...

The law of large numbers is one of the most ‘ignored’ laws in the financial world. Although everyone understands it, however, most big firm managers find it a little difficult to agree with this law.

When you move beyond trillions, there are some extremely mind-bending numbers, says Richard Fisher. Some of them are too large to fit in the mind – or even within the known Universe. What's the ...

More than 150 years ago, the economist and philosopher William Stanley Jevons discovered something curious about the number 4. While musing about how the mind conceives of numbers, he tossed a handful ...

Small numbers are processed in the right side of the brain, while large numbers are processed in the left side of the brain, new research suggests. The study, from scientists at Imperial College ...

You likely know the names of numbers up to a trillion. But what comes next? The need for a larger number of names arises in domains like physics, computer science, and statistics. Beyond trillion, you ...