A question about "as many as"

[JhanasC520]

Dear Ron,

as mentioned in your previous post that: 1:You can only double quantities, amounts, or other numerical things. You can't "double" a physical entity.

2: "..., twice as many as...", because that's an appositive modifier. Appositives must modify some noun that comes IMMEDIATELY before the comma, which in this case would have to be whatever figure is twice whatever other figure

However, I read in the Manhattan SC guide and find one sentence confusing:

we have 10 apples, about as many as we picked yesterday.

in this sentence, 10 apples is the amounts of the apple and I thought double is more appropriate here according to your above explanantion.

Could you please explain?

[RonPurewal]

Dear Ron,

as mentioned in your previous post that:

if you're asking about something i said in another thread, please post in the same thread. thanks.