xkcd #3289: Highway Signs

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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.

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Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1.
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Ah, okay, I got it. I love doing string operations to get math results tho, especially when programming.

I could use logarithms... or I could len(str(n))-1

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