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From: "Mark Lundquist" <mlundquist2@attbi.com>
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"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Ow! In this context' dimensionless' means 'having dimensions that are
zero'
> rather than 'not having any dimensions'. (Fairly common physics textbook
> terminology.) So, in this sense, angles are dimensionless (their
dimensions
> are all zero).

I get it.

thx,
-- mark