When I was very young I was convinced that there was a biggest number. And I was continually annoyed that no one would tell me what the biggest number was. I asked my mom all the time but she would never give me an answer. It seemed to me that if there was a smallest number (0) then there must be a biggest number too. I was extremely annoyed by this until I was 6 or 7!
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to believe that Africa was the biggest country and Luxembourg was the smallest.Anon
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew