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Understanding the Context

To my mind, the largest is the one with the greatest surface area, the biggest may have a smaller surface area but be deeper and therefore contain more water...and be 'bigger'. Of course, one could just as well assign the other way..but there IS a distinction. I think. In "the single largest factor", "single" is technically redundant, save for excluding the possibility of joint winners.

Key Insights

When used (by someone who understands the language) it's serves as an intensifier, basically making the phrase mean "the largest factor by far". When referring to a list of number is largest or biggest correct? For example, I want to find the biggest number in an array. Or should it be the largest number. Finally, would either biggest or In mathematics, when referring to pure numbers is largest or biggest ...

Final Thoughts

What about the second pie chart? In the second pie chart the largest portion is less than 50%. Can I still consider the group "c" as majority in it? Based on the Cambridge Dictionary it seems ambiguous: (1) the larger number or part of something, (2) more than half of a total number or amount.