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Old February 26th 18, 11:09 AM posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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In article , Don Pearce
wrote:

Where possible I will always use units as they provide inbuilt
dimensional analysis. If an answer that is supposed to be in Hz insists
that it is kg/foot, I know I need to do a bit of checking.


Sadly, I doubt they teach any dimensional analysis in schools any more.

Maybe this is why we've had generations of theoretical physicists who do
all their calculations 'normalised' so that every physical constant is '1'.
8-]

Makes trying to work out *real* answers a bit of a challenge.

Jim

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