I've been playing a lot with magnitude notation, where ^X is shorthand for 10^X: ^3 is a thousand, ^6 is a million, ^7.5 is 31 million (seconds in a year), etc. Much easier to think through math at scale than with scientific notation. It's becoming kind of a slide rule in my head.
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