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Quantifying things is an overarching goal in science, but recent events have left me pondering just why that is. After all, we've long known that numbers can be precise but inaccurate. The textbook ...

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Numbers are your stock in trade, and you are, no doubt, an expert at manipulating big numbers. But do you remember the basic arithmetic of small numbers and the simple ways they relate to each other?