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		omegalulw on July 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities What's a use case for "units-east-per-unit-north"? Proportions of a room? Call it 3:2 or whatever, makes perfect sense. A direction? Use an angle. Like some other commenter said having to deal with "units-east-per-unit-north" is like code smell.

lupire on July 2, 2021 [–]

why use an ambiguous unit when you have a precise unit? radians and ratios require a zero axis. The code smell is when the uniy is missing.

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