Mathematics is the easiest subject to fool those with low levels of education because it sits perfectly at the edge of their cognitive limits—both easy and hard to understand.
Even a three-year-old can count using their fingers, but once the numbers exceed two digits, even adults feel lost.
That's why many religious sects in the past exaggerated numbers when preaching, claiming things like they had several hundred billion gods, each cultivating for hundreds of billions of years.
They couldn't understand anything else, and although they couldn't understand this either, it just seemed so impressive.
No one has seen the flat peach, said to bloom for three thousand years, bear fruit for three thousand years, and mature for three thousand years. The ones who grow flat peaches don't seem to need to eat them, and those who need them can't verify the legend's truth.
