Eli5 why it is difficult for humans to read a lot of 0s, like 2000000, but not words?

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Eli5 why it is difficult for humans to read a lot of 0s, like 2000000, but not words?

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Becuase you only need the fisrt and last chacarter in a word to be correct and the legnth of the word and its shape matter.

Yes, the first sentence has these misspellings exactly to show off that you can still all read it.

So while a word has a specific shape and length that you can match at a glance, a string of zeros is hard to count because it’s simply not read like a word.