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RE: supplementary S.I. units



A. John Mallinckrodt wrote:

BTW, despite my own preference for the idea of an angular dimension
because of the consistency that it confers on calculations, I'm not
sure that I would want to try to teach it this way.


Nor would I. Granted, nature puts certain potholes in the way of
developing a consistent scheme for describing nature. Granted that we have
options about how we want to formulate this description. But I have read
the articles by those who try to circumvent the "problem" of the radian,
and I say "where's the problem?"


Geez... and I was told that mathematics was nature's language... ;^)

Dewey

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