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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Many overlook the possibility sin(x,360.0) ?
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:35:16 +0200
Date: 2017-05-02T10:35:16+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <oe9gc6$20o$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3e8fb7a2-e218-4b0e-8a20-174162392093@googlegroups.com

On 02/05/2017 08:37, reinert wrote:
> My point is that "x" and "period" has the same dimmension in sin(x,period).

Yes

> "x" (and "Period") may not represent radians or degree. "x" may
> represent for example time (seconds) or meters - or lightyears :-)

x/period must be dimensionless, which is satisfied when both have same 
dimension.

> In
> some way "radians" and "degree" are "dimmensionless" varaiables (do not
> miss-understand me here).

Yes, arguments of all non-algebraic functions must be dimensionless. So 
sine goes.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-02  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-01  5:22 Many overlook the possibility sin(x,360.0) ? reinert
2017-05-01  8:50 ` hreba
2017-05-01 17:46 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2017-05-01 20:04   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-01 20:46     ` Shark8
2017-05-02  6:37       ` reinert
2017-05-02  8:35         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2017-05-03  4:12           ` reinert
2017-05-03  7:18             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-05-08 17:37               ` reinert
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