The emotional numbers

Ruhan plays a game with his mother.

Ruhan says, “Mummy I love you.”

Mummy says, “I love you too.”

Then, it increases exponentially.

Ruhan says, “I love you ten.”

Mummy says, “I love you hundred.”

Ruhan says, “I love you thousand.”

It goes on, with ten thousand, millions, billions, up to a few billions. Off late, it is going up to a trillion and several trillions. The game stops when nobody has any count of how many trillions have been used in which order.

Well, I am sure those numbers are still not enough to measure their love.

But that’s not all.

We say:

“It would have been ten times better to take the other route.”

“I told you at least hundred times but you still didn’t listen to me.”

“He would have been thousand times better as a captain”, and so on.

In reality, thousand times better probably means just about twice better, or somewhere around that mark.

We emphasize the importance of our emotion using any big number we like, because they are free for non-commercial use.

Are there any parameters to estimate the relationship between the emotional numbers and the numbers we actually mean?