In the 1970s mathematicians found a simple way to create all numbers, from the infinitely small to infinitely large ...

The Brain Processes Smaller Numbers of Objects Differently to Larger Numbers A study carried out in Tübingen and Bonn finds evidence of two separate processing mechanisms.

The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.

Newborn babies seem to have a rudimentary sense of numbers, preferring smaller numbers on the left and larger ones on the right. The finding suggests that this left-to-right mental number line ...

The neurons for smaller numbers of things are more selective The recent study actually indicates, however, that we do indeed process small and large numbers of things differently. The research groups ...