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Relevant wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless_quantity

Radians and degrees are both ratios where the units cancel out - ie. m/m. The point that is made is that adding degrees to radians without any conversions is technically fine from a dimensional analysis perspective, but it's often a bug in programming that we might want to prevent.

parent bjz_ 6 years ago

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