By Daniel Wellers, Senior Director, Strategy & Research, SAP
With the exception of mathematicians, we humans can’t handle big numbers. The blame falls squarely on our ancestors. To survive, our knuckle-dragging ancient forebears needed to count how many people to feed, and estimate if enough animals were nearby to hunt. These were small numbers that changed little over many generations. Since there was no evolutionary requirement to understand either large numbers or the concept....