[HN Gopher] What Is Dimensional Analysis?
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       What Is Dimensional Analysis?
        
       Author : cgadski
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-09-13 08:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | chowells wrote:
       | Dimensional analysis crimes are the best crimes. Express velocity
       | in meter-hertz. It's wrong, but the units are right!
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | Brings back memories. We had a particularly strict physics
       | teacher who only awarded full marks if our answers were
       | numerically correct, with correct units, and we proved (with a
       | little marginal aside simplifying all mass, length and time) that
       | the dimensions were also correct.
        
       | smitty1e wrote:
       | This was interesting, but I was expecting something more along
       | the lines of base units =>
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
        
       | m0llusk wrote:
       | Kind of odd that this doesn't really go into metrics directly nor
       | does it mention one of the more interesting cases which is
       | infinite dimensionality.
        
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