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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.

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[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's less about math itself feeling wrong and more about doing a string operation to get a math result

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, okay, I got it. I love doing string operations to get math results tho, especially when programming.

I could use logarithms... or I could len(str(n))-1