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  1. I'm sorry for the confusion. My post was truly a response to the the original post by zebov. I just included the extra information to let them know how I ended up across the thread, and how I came up with my response. I really do appreciate your responses though because they made me take another look, and I feel that I better understand zebov's remark about longevity.
  2. I realize this is an old post, but I'm currently studying nutrition, and in my studies I just came across a measurement called glycemic response. I have doubts about the textbook's reliability, and that's another issue, but basically the units for glycemic response according to this book should be in mM*min. In attempting to understand the unit, I decided to google meter-second to see if it would help me in any way because I also remember coming across the idea in calculus. The post by Casey Wood, because of its roots in math, made me think of some of the situations that I've come across when trying to interpret the meaning of certain functions. Anyway, one facet to the elegance of math, in my opinion, comes from the simplification of expressions. Unfortunately, it hides information that is helpful for me in understanding it -- think about the zeros that are randomly added to certain problems to arrive at a solution. Well, the point is that functions or even a plain number will have equivalent expressions. What I mean is, for example, 4 can be expressed as 2x2 or as 1+3 or 28/7 and whatever else. So, I thought, why not do the same for meter-second? Meter-second can also be expressed as meter per inverse second, i.e., m/(1/s) or m/Hz. Don't get me wrong, I still don't know what it means, but it somehow seems more understandable.
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