If you can't trust language users to be accurate enough to represent a power of 1000, you can't really represent concepts which differ by a thousand, or by a th

If you can't trust language users to be accurate enough to represent a power of 1000, you can't really represent concepts which differ by a thousand, or by a thousandth! There are times when people are communicating approximations and feelings, where imperfection is fine, and times when they're communicating precise, technical, numeric concepts where an imperfect model is insufficient.