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Because you can define your own binary methods, you can create new numberlike object classes. For example, you can create a Weight class for representing weights. Once you have defined such a class, you do not need to use ordinary Number instances for weights; instead, you can use Weight instances, and can perform calculations using those instances as receivers, such as the following, in which gm is an abbreviation for grams:

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