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// Set sizes without units
$basefont: 20;
$total-width-px: 1169;
$column-width-px: 72;

// Concatenation of units by addition results in conversion to string. This is bad
$basefont-px: $basefont+'px';  // = "20px"

// Conversion to pixels using multiplication
$basefont-px: $basefont*1px;  // = 20px;