According to Douglas R. Hofstadter in Metamagical Themas, the inability to make sense of numbers is a problem on par with illiteracy in this country. Numbers have the ability to summarise salient aspects of reality, yet the inability to comprehend numbers, large numbers in particular, is widespread
Numbers are often not as important as they seem.
It is difficult to understand how big one million is without ever having seen one million things. Hendrik Hertzberg’s book One Million (published in 1970) makes the number understandable by giving us a visual model—one million dots to look at, to hold in our hands.
Numbers become meaningful when they can be related to concepts that can be viscerally grasped.
Reduce numbers into bite-size chunks, which the reader can pick and choose