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Comment by opminion

If you see units as multiplicative factors:

1.5 USD = 1.5 * USD

65 mph = 65 * mile / hour

you can then use simple algebra to solve unit conversion and many other common deductive reasoning questions ("how many miles per gallon...?"), relying on the units to guide you to the solution.

There's probably a name for this, and it is indeed built into the SI notation (km/h vs mph).

parent opminion 4 years ago

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