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Originally Posted by bizaro86
In both cases those are just a framing problem. If you want to estimate a building in mm first you should estimate it in metres and then multiply by a thousand.
If you want to understand the impact of billions of dollars of spending/benefits in Canada I think it's helpful to think about it on a per-person basis (ie, if you cut $2 billion in profits out of the system that's a savings of $50 per person).
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Had I followed my gut instinct and said "inches", the simplicity and elegance of a base-10 numbering system would be out the window and I think it would have demonstrated my point a bit better.
Damned metric
-ish upbringing.