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Absolutely. Units are such a useful idea.

I was recently struggling to model a financial process and solved it with Units. Once I started talking about colors of money as units, it became much easier to reason about which operations were valid.




Strictly speaking this is about dimensional analysis, not units. (When discussing curricula we should be precise!)




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