If Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (24 ) was a standard unit ...
Estimated world population of Wild Bactrian Camel (950 individuals)...more would be 40 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Estimated world population of African Wild Ass (600 individuals)...more would be 25 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of skyscrapers in Dubai (>150m tall) (236 )...more would be 10 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of passengers in a carriage of an Underground train on London's Bakerloo line (121 )...more would be 5 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of ways of seating six people around a table (120 )...more would be 5 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of skyscrapers in Chicago (>150m tall) (118 )...more would be 5 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Number of Deaths in the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in 1989 (96 )...more would be 4 x Number of stories in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Is That A Big Number? - The Book
Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.
