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Ratios are numbers. They are literally just fractions. No one argues that the numbers don't make sense because you can have different units. But that's what units are for – to know what does the preceding number refer to. Why have a unit that doesn't give you full information?


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if a TV seller went bonkers and only said "it's 10:16", can you guess the actual size of that TV?


But that's not what is being expressed. You might as well complain that the ratio doesn't give you information on the price, weight, or power usage of the TV.




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