I always find it interesting at how wrong our intuitions can be, where even like a straight-line calculation like this, it just doesn't compute. I figure the trick is that we have to be able to relate these numbers to something realistic in our personal experience, and most of us have no experience with billions and trillions.
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I think that’s true of everything new we come across, not just large numbers. Many people who speak publicly, pastors, self-help folk, etc, have a swag of illustrative points they use to help convey their ideas easier.
Even as a teacher, I took on a Year 7 Maths class, and needing to be able to explain concepts (because, for some reason, everything in Year 7 Maths was new to most students) in different ways was so important in helping students to understand and grasp what they were hearing. Often, the best way to help them visualise something was to put it into a context for their life so that they could relate to it more than the words in the textbook.