Did you know? Pop. of Shenyang, China (8.11 million people) is 2.5 x Pop. of Mongolia (2023) (3.26million)
Free-form entry eg: '125000km', '1.5 million inches', '$67bn', '45000000 AUD', 100years', '123456789', '1 trillion', '1.5e6', '25 million kg'
Wonderful tale by Ben Orlin “Math with Bad Drawings”, of a creature exploring the world of numbers, very much in the spirit of “Flatland”.
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/01/20/the-number-line-a-journey/
From Atlas Obscura, a sampling of infographics from the 19th century. All with the aim in mind of putting information into a format where it can easily be understood and compared.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-stunning-early-infographics-and-maps-of-the-1800s
Powerful infographic from the FiveThirtyEight.com website (to whom all respect for numbers-led analysis and comment). Gives the question some context and perspective. And #ContextMatters. (Red dots are suicides, blue are homicides, yellow are accidents)
Overall, 33,000 people a year die from shootings in the USA. That IS a big number.
Want more? The IsThatABigNumber book is a celebration of numbers and numeracy. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
Click here to learn more about it.
Click here for Podcast: Andrew Elliott interviewed for New Books Network.