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Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 wit

Fun game! I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well. Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned. Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.

last_one_in 5y ago
Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.
- tovej 5y ago
  Maybe greek prefixes or even spelling out the bigger units? I.e. 9.4 gigagrams or 54 billion kilograms. Of course you might have the issue of short scale vs. long scale billions but a footnote should solve that.
  - last_one_in 5y ago
    Yeah. A friend was playing with a group in a room and one of them was trying to read out the questions. Not a problem with 800 gorillas but it is with bigger numbers. Hmm, not sure what to do. The Greek prefixes I find really hard to remember! For simplicity and debugging it was easiest to just slap the numbers up.
- cmeacham98 5y ago
  Perhaps a toggle?
- crummy 5y ago
  Could you just have a simple bar graph that showed their relative sizes? Two numbers with a bunch of zeroes are hard to compare.
  - tokamak-teapot 5y ago
    That'd be great to see!
asmosoinio 5y ago
I like the big numbers with lots of zeros: works for kids as well. IMHO it could lose some of the silly charm with scientific notation. But having the numbers aligned for easy comparison would be great. --- To OP: I really like this! Will be guessing some with my kids who are around 10 year old. Combined weight less than an elephant.
- last_one_in 5y ago
  OP here. Thanks! Will be testing with my 6 year old later. He actually hasn't seen it yet. Yeah, I agree. I wanted something that everyone can read and where the physical size of the number on the screen gives a great idea of the size (in terms of order of magnitude). Alignment is a great idea. I'll have a think about that one.
  - tokamak-teapot 5y ago
    4,200,000,000 (4.2 billion) 1,000,000 (1 million) 900,000 (900 thousand) This kind of formatting would be great - for kids learning about bigger numbers and their names.
    - last_one_in 5y ago
      Oooo, I like that. That's really clear.

last_one_in 5y ago

Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.

tovej 5y ago
Maybe greek prefixes or even spelling out the bigger units? I.e. 9.4 gigagrams or 54 billion kilograms. Of course you might have the issue of short scale vs. long scale billions but a footnote should solve that.
- last_one_in 5y ago
  Yeah. A friend was playing with a group in a room and one of them was trying to read out the questions. Not a problem with 800 gorillas but it is with bigger numbers. Hmm, not sure what to do. The Greek prefixes I find really hard to remember! For simplicity and debugging it was easiest to just slap the numbers up.
cmeacham98 5y ago
Perhaps a toggle?
crummy 5y ago
Could you just have a simple bar graph that showed their relative sizes? Two numbers with a bunch of zeroes are hard to compare.
- tokamak-teapot 5y ago
  That'd be great to see!

asmosoinio 5y ago

I like the big numbers with lots of zeros: works for kids as well. IMHO it could lose some of the silly charm with scientific notation. But having the numbers aligned for easy comparison would be great. --- To OP: I really like this! Will be guessing some with my kids who are around 10 year old. Combined weight less than an elephant.

last_one_in 5y ago
OP here. Thanks! Will be testing with my 6 year old later. He actually hasn't seen it yet. Yeah, I agree. I wanted something that everyone can read and where the physical size of the number on the screen gives a great idea of the size (in terms of order of magnitude). Alignment is a great idea. I'll have a think about that one.
- tokamak-teapot 5y ago
  4,200,000,000 (4.2 billion) 1,000,000 (1 million) 900,000 (900 thousand) This kind of formatting would be great - for kids learning about bigger numbers and their names.
  - last_one_in 5y ago
    Oooo, I like that. That's really clear.