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<p>If the engineers who sent the Mars lander had paid more attention to units maybe it wouldn’t have crashed.</p>
<p>Sure some homework is busy work, some times you can do a lot of the work in your head, but in the real world you may be working with someone who needs to be able to follow your thinking, you may be publishing scientific research where people will need to be able to replicate your results.</p>