Sentir números, sentir probabilidades
En El hombre anúmerico, J.A. Paulos discute el problema de la visualización (e italizo para indicar que ver no es el fin sino el medio para interiorizar y sentir) números, particularmente, grandes números. Sobre los no excesivamente grandes escribe, p.e.,
To cite some happier illustrations for smaller numbers, the standard I use for the lowly thousand is a section of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia which I know contains 1,008 seats and which is easy to picture. The north wall of a garage near my house contains almost exactly ten thousand narrow bricks. For one hundred thousand, I generally think of the number of words in a good-sized novel.