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Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot: Numbers

“Numbers, when they’re large enough, simply blow our mental fuses. People often find anything with an ‘-illion’ on the end incomprehensible. They make a useless mental shortcut: ‘lots of zeros = big.’”
— Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, authors, The Numbers Game.

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