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I don’t agree with this. You could literally redefine any unit (as we have done so multiple times in the past) and end up with zero coincidences.

All measurement metrics are “fake” - nothing is truly universal, and can easily be correlated with another human made measure eg Pi.




I seriously doubt you could define any system of units that has zero coincidences, even with significant computational effort. Some things in the real world are just going to happen to line up close to round numbers, or important mathematical constants, or powers or roots of mathematical constants, and then you’ll have some coincidences.

There are just too many physical quantities we find significant, and too many ways to mix numbers together to make expressions that look notable.




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