For companies, the law of large numbers is related to the concept of diseconomies of scale. In short, a company that is growing sales very fast is unlikely to maintain that pace indefinitely.

He said that scientific notation is fantastic for helping us calculate with large numbers — 10 billion divided by 1 million becomes 1010 / 106 = 10(10-6) = 104 — but it is not very helpful for ...

In this guest editorial, she takes apart the Law of Very Large Numbers. A world population of 7 billion people doesn’t automatically make your coincidence experience insignificant. When we ...

to find out why the human brain has difficulty processing very large numbers. Toomarian explained how our brain networks are not wired that way. She also offered constructive techniques that help ...