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Your brain and numbers

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12 November 2023, 10:39 AM
wtg
Your brain and numbers
quote:
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics.


https://www.quantamagazine.org...placement=newsletter


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12 November 2023, 11:07 AM
Doug
You would think they’d have told us about this guy when I was studying accounting.

The original bean counter?
12 November 2023, 12:15 PM
Mikhailoh
You guys are not so much into estimating as counting.


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12 November 2023, 01:01 PM
QuirtEvans
quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
You guys are not so much into estimating as counting.


I've known many accountants who seemed to be very much into estimating.
12 November 2023, 11:16 PM
Mary Anna
Estimating is a good skill for counters to have.

Not everybody can (or takes the time to) step back from a calculation and ask, "Does this answer make sense?"


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