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As humans, we are not good at judging the size of large numbers. And even when we know one is bigger than another, we don’t appreciate the size of the difference.
If you ever have access to a friend’s phone, go into the settings and change their calendar to the Buddhist one. Suddenly, they’re living in the 2560s. Maybe try to convince them they have just woken up from a coma.
A political committee is rarely a good solution to a mathematical problem.
The rule of thumb should be: if you’re not going to do any math with it, don’t store it as a number.
