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Again, you tell me. Units have no meaning without the context of what you're modeling.

I can model the average temperature of your pieces of metal as (20C+15C)/2=17.5C.



  Units have no meaning without the context of what you're modeling.
I fully agree with that statement ! But some addition of units are widely accepted because their associated model is almost universal on earth, let's say adding mass (kg) of two different objects


Yes, that's why we're having this conversation. It's so common that some people reasonably infer a stronger connection between units and physics.




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