Dictionary of Numbers

A dictionary takes words you're unfamiliar with and puts them in terms you're familiar with. Dictionary of Numbers takes numbers you're unfamiliar with and puts them in terms you can understand.

Dictionary of Numbers scans the web pages you visit looking for numbers it can understand. When it finds one, it will give you a human-understandable meaning for that number. For example, Dictionary of Numbers will take this sentence:

"The hurricane displaced over 100,000 people and cost an estimated $3 million in damages."

And turn it into something like this:

"The hurricane displaced over 100,000 people [≈ population of Aruba] and caused an estimated $3 million [≈ cost of 30-second Super Bowl advertisement] in damages."

gchiacchieri, Dictionary of Numbers (Unknown)

• comparison
• quantification