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Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature
05-11-2019, 12:17 PM
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RE: Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature
(05-10-2019 09:41 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  Sure. Draw two straight line segments that meet at one point, and draw them such that the angle between them is one radian. That's a physical angle of one radian right there.

But an angular displacement is just a purely numerical operation, basically a type of multiplication, so why does it need units appended to it? Similar affine transformations such as scaling do not need units.

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