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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by Dysprosium on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:26PM (#10132221)
Seems like our brain think in log.
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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by andreyf on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:31PM (#10132249)
That's probably because the size of decimal digits written down on a piece of paper is in log.
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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by Gladdyu on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:34PM (#10132268)
Our number system is in log: value(number) ~ 10^length(number)
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Re:“One billion people used Facebook in a single day” by egillie on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:42PM (#10132308)
There's some evidence for that! http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5880/1217.abstract
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