Playboy After Hours

November, 1968

We've always been inordinately fond of figures—both the statistical and the female varieties. Large numbers put us off in grammar school, as did girls; but in the intervening years, we've managed to reach a happy accord with both. We don't intend to detail here the intricacies of our introduction to the wonderful world of women, but how we won the battle of large numbers may prove instructive. The basic fact about large numbers is that they are large—too large to comprehend. The road to understa...