Comment by saulpw
2 years ago
John Napier is my current math nerd hero! I've been trying to promote "magnitude notation"[0] as the next evolution in numeric notation. If we used mag numbers in science and journalism and even finance, we'd get the same increase in mental superpowers as we got with positional notation.
What a nice idea!
Notation making it easier to intuit logarithmic scales does sound like a good idea in a world where human societies partially struggles to come to action because of things like the majority of people not intuitively understanding exponential growth, or the difference in scale between "millionaire" or "billionaire". It would be a good tool for the mind.