Summer of Math Exposition

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The Metric System on Goldilocks Earth.

Scuba divers know that the pressure experienced at depths increases by one atmosphere every 10 meters down. That’s just serendipitous; an easy conversion that isn’t actually part of the metric system and is due to specific physical properties of Earth that are “just right”. It didn't have to be this way; these "spark joy" for physicists.