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• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No one stops you from putting radians and steradians in your units. But it’s unitless by definition.

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  • anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I strongly disagree with the definition itself. And yes, there are stops that prevent me from doing that in scientific computing resources like sympy, matlab, and my professors.

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    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You disagree that a ratio is unitless? What’s the cos of a unit?

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      • anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        yep, I don’t think the question “what’s the cos of a unit” is valid because cos expects a plane angle in the input and a unit doesn’t meet that expectation; it’s underdefined; it depends whether the calculator is set to radians or degrees.

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