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This is because elephants are far larger than bacteria, and if you go to say 0.00001 of a decimal place without changing the prefix of metres, our mind cannot appreciate properly what that figure actually means

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Q: Why would the size of an elephant be expressed in meters but that of a bacterium in microns?
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