10k? 100k? A million?

I am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or “no longer mean anything”.

Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.

Edit: What I’ve gathered so far from the answers:

Visualizing: <10

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    5 days ago

    That’s not how the human brain typically works. We summarize, categorize, lump etc so the concept of numbers is understood.