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Neat trick! It's always nice to find someone online who's more autistic than I am : )
Ehh, probably more a habit because of my job, software developer. We generally don't care about specific amounts. We care about orders of magnitude. So it's usually just very rough estimates.
Believe it or not, we sometimes have trainings to help teach people how to do estimates for things that are basically unknowable. Like, how many steps every participant in a race took (think Boston Marathon), or how many doors are in a city.