• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

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

    • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      22 hours 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.

        • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          14 hours 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.