New research reveals that numbers in our visual field can subtly distort how we judge spatial positions, showing that perception is shaped by both numerical magnitude and object-based processing.

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Number lines can help you see where a number is compared to another number. You can create a number line that goes up to any number. You can then look at the part of the number line that's the most ...

Imagine a horizontal line. The very left is marked one thousand and the very right is marked one billion. On this line, where would you add a marker to represent one million? If you said somewhere in ...

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Although few of us think of numbers in spatial terms 5, psychophysical evidence suggests that the mental representation of numbers has a spatial nature, possibly with a left–right orientation 6. First ...

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

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What is the most bizarre real number that you can imagine? Probably many people think of an irrational number such as pi (π) or Euler’s number. And indeed, such values can be considered “wild.” After ...