thomblake comments on The Quick Bayes Table - Less Wrong

33 Post author: farsan 18 April 2012 06:00PM

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Comment author: thomblake 19 April 2012 02:39:38PM 2 points [-]

I do like "Jaynes" as the name of the unit.

Though... are there other examples of where we have a unit that mathematically is unitless and just represents a multiplication factor, other than Decibels?

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 19 April 2012 06:44:17PM *  1 point [-]

Though... are there other examples of where we have a unit that mathematically is unitless and just represents a multiplication factor, other than Decibels?

Radians and degrees (measures of angle) are common dimensionless units.