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> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:51:28 +0200
> 
> But if I'd take two integers, I would put 10,100 or even 10,1000 instead.
> When scanning through large files I'd rather think in bigger numbers.

Can you tell why?  100 lines might fit in a single windowful, but 1000
most probably won't.  So what is the purpose of having such far-away
milestones?  Are you using line numbers for something other than
navigation through the buffer?