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#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

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The Real Counterintuitive Thing About Expanding Numbers

The real counterintuitive thing about exponential growth is like as the numbers start to get big. So I bet if you took that same set up and you asked them, oh, if I keep tripling the size of this rock pile, you know, seven times, how big will it be? I bet it would be surprisingly big even to a society without numeracy. And that's the side of it that I think is pretty counterintuitive to us, but that you can basically train into people like computer scientists and physicists.

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