How to Read Numbers, the joint work of David Chivers and his cousin, Tom Chivers, is a book that takes on the tricky task of communicating numbers in letters. David is an assistant professor of ...

Chrome: When you're reading articles that have a lot of big numbers in them it's hard to actually wrap you mind around what they mean. A number like "342,234 acres" doesn't really mean much to ...

Sometimes such large numbers are recast as percentages of the whole, but that approach suffers from the same drawback, generating confusingly small figures, like 0.01 percent.