Our monkey brains didn’t evolve to understand big numbers without some help. So when you run into an abstract figure, it’s good to have some real-world thing to compare it to. That’s why I a video comparing Jeff Bezos’s money to Beyoncé’s. When you need to visualise a certain number,…
You probably haven’t had to do longhand maths in years, but you do mental maths every day. Or maybe you google maths problems ten times a day, because you’ve forgotten how to do any maths beyond your basic multiplication tables. Here are some shortcuts that will help you do more…
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