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> Imagine if you had to do math with a bunch of 10^23 exponents all of the time.

What if it was just set to 10^24 then? Much easier to remember and serves the same purpose.

If it was 1 it would work too, since the SI system already has a way to deal with large numbers: prefixes. So we might wrote Ymol for yotta mole = 10^24 mol.



Then 1 mol of carbon-12 would weigh 1300 g rather than 12 g and the conversions would be a pain.




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