I don’t think grasping and visualizing are the same. I am sure you can grasp the concept of 3. Like 3 cars waiting on a light, or 3 slices of pizza.
If the limit was visualizing, the answer would be zero, since some folks can’t visualize at all.
Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 days ago
Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.
Impossible. The first apple inside my head would have killed me already.
I can visualize 1 apple im my mouth.
I can visualize 2 apples im my mouth, but with some struggle.
I cannot visualize 10 or 100 or 10,000 apples im my mouth.
So my answer is 2. Every human can grasp that number. Above 2, not everybody can.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 days ago
Always a pleasure when people explain my texts to me. Even more so when I was deliberately unprecise, or not so serious at all 😉
froh42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I am bordering on aphantasia, i can’t visualize an apple at all, just as an abstract drawing.
I can visualize numbers and graphs, for example 1-6 are easy with the symbols of a dice, 7 like six with a dot in the middle, 8 two rows of fours and 9 as a three by threw grid.
The thing is, I never visualize things literally, it’s always abstract symbols - and understanding “more” requires better symbols.
Decimal system is also just a symbol, I can easily keep numbers in my mind up to six or seven digits.
Bigger, I have a bit of trouble with the scientific notation - I don’t have concepts for numbers beyond 10^9, even these rather are a thousand million.
“Hardcoded” numbers in the brain go to 4 or 5 or so, everything else is abstractions. piled on abstractions and how used you are to handling these.
Asafum@feddit.nl 6 days ago
“One… Two… Umm … Many … One many… Two many… Many many…”
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 days ago
“Lots”