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Hours aren't SI/metric. That factor of 3600 makes any conversion to acceleration more ugly than it should be (rounding a curve for instance). Nearly as bad as 5280 in my opinion. And really, 30 meters/second would be a nice human readable number.

Even in science though, the pros are happy to switch to electron volts or units where the speed of light and years are both 1.



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