A plehtora of Quantities

Guy Rixon gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk
Fri May 14 02:59:01 PDT 2004


What if the real-world quantity is dimensionless? Should we add 'nodims' or
something as a kind of quasi-unit?

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Alberto Micol wrote:

> > Want a quantity with errors but no units?  Go right ahead.
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> I think we should forbid such option, really!
> Of course, unless you can convince me of the contrary.
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> Alberto
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