Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers mug Los Angeles Times (biography)

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Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers mug Los Angeles Times (biography)By Chip Heath & Karla Starr A clear, practical, first of its kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and datafrom bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds isthirty two years. Understanding numbers is essentialbut humans arent built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than fiveanything