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In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was r...
It gets worse when you call it 14.4 (arc) minutes per hour.
Ignoring the ‘arc’, that’s dimensionless. You could just call it “0.24” ;-)
Dylan16807
on April 19, 2023
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I guess it depends on how you do the ignoring. "minutes" by itself usually means "minutes of hour", but I would argue that if you take "minutes of arc" and ignore the "arc" the better answer is "minutes of ____"
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Ignoring the ‘arc’, that’s dimensionless. You could just call it “0.24” ;-)