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Nah, it is a issue with units for me. Speaking primitively: % and ‰ look weirdly and add weirdly - they are easy to remember.

But when some unit looks like a meter or gram (especially using the micro- prefix here), it should behave accordingly.



Of course, even your example units don't always behave like you want. For velocities, 150 megameters/second + 150 megameters/second ≈ 240 megameters/second.


Sorry, can you explain why the velocities should add that way? I've always just seen velocities add like regular old vectors, so this looks very strange.


Relativity. If they could add that way, you would get 300 megameters/s, which is breaking the speed of light.


That'd be special relativity for you - nothing ever exceeds the speed of light, hence a corrective factor needs to be applied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity


Relativistic effects.




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