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		anonytrary on July 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities How is that relevant here? We're talking about a two dimensional vector space (hence "east", "north").

OscarCunningham on July 3, 2021 [–]

Since we've chosen a basis of the vector space (east, north) we can think of it as two 1-dimensional vector spaces. So we're dividing meters east by meters north.

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