• Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day 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.

    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      It’s not undefined. You cannot take the exponential of anything with dimensions. That also applied to logs and trigonometric functions. Ergo, angles must be unitless.