Abstract:The SI brochure's treatment of quantities that it regards as dimensionless, with the associated unit one, requires certain physical quantities to be regarded as simply numbers. The resulting formal system erases the nature of these quantities and excludes them from important benefits that quantity calculus provides over numerical value calculations, namely, that accidental confusion of different units and different kinds of quantities is sometimes prevented. I propose a better treatment that entails removing… Show more
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