> Also vaguely related to my pet peeve of using large denominators to make numbers large and confusing. This factory produces 63M items a year! How about 2 per

> Also vaguely related to my pet peeve of using large denominators to make numbers large and confusing. This factory produces 63M items a year! How about 2 per second, I can visualize 2. smaller denominators can also be misleading though. maybe this is just me, but I usually read the denominator as implying a time period over which the figure is stable. for example, before the pandemic, I drove about 40 miles/day. I really did drive 20 miles each way to work pretty much every day. another way of saying this is that I drove 1.6 miles/hour every work day. true on average but kinda misleading when I spent 23 hours out of the day not driving at all. it might not matter much to your example, but the factory probably didn't produce two items every second. there were probably shift changes, or maybe it stopped production for a few hours every night. depending on market conditions, it might have produced more on some days than others, and so forth.