Which of these two numbers *feels* bigger?
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998999889899898
1000000000000000

Just what the question says on the tin. This is about your feelings, regardless of whether those feelings align with conventional ideas of number bigness or not. Please answer seriously. If you smile while answering, delete your account.

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D: noooo nooo

please don't take away my account

What about 784 and 12?

@Eliza There will be squeakuel markets

@Panfilo Gotta say, the AI generated art for this market is great.

I don't really "feel" about numbers, but the font size does make a difference. The zeroes are much wider, so it was plausible that the first number actually had more digits. But it didn't.

makes a big difference that the two numbers are one on top of the other. If you asked which of 998999889899898 and 1000000000000000 feel bigger, it's a coin toss, for me, but one on top of the other makes all the difference!

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