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We know 1 million years is a long time, but “a long time” is subjective. Your friend might say that she sat in traffic for “a long time” because she drove 20 miles in one hour, but one hour does not compare to 1 million years. Now suppose your friend instead said it took her one hour to travel 3 million centimeters. How do we interpret that? Was that a large or small distance to traverse in that amount of time?
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Roe, J., deForest, R., Jamshidi, S. (2018). Measuring. In: Mathematics for Sustainability. Texts for Quantitative Critical Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76660-7_1
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