Timeline for May I treat units (e.g. joules, grams, etc.) in equations as variables?

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Jun 11, 2020 at 10:20	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
May 16, 2015 at 19:17	history	edited	TRiG	CC BY-SA 3.0	Added chemistry-related example.
May 14, 2015 at 17:37	comment	added	TRiG		@docscience And the units themselves, not just the dimensions, can be treated as algebraic variables. In my example, there's just the one dimension (I may add more examples when I'm not on a train), and more of the values are simple conversions.
May 14, 2015 at 16:05	comment	added	Random832		Of course, depending on what genre of music you prefer, you may be able to simplify this further by using either `86400 s day^-1` or `525600 min yr^-1` - bearing in mind that for the latter you are embedding an assumption about non-leap years into how you measure a year.
May 14, 2015 at 14:33	comment	added	docscience		One cannot stress enough how important dimensional analysis is and the realization that dimensions can be treated algebraically in the same manner as numbers. As TRiG says If you can master dimensions you're likely never to make mistakes again in your computations. And there is much more ... check out Buckingham's PI theorem to see where dimensions can be used to infer mathematical relationships of physical systems.
May 14, 2015 at 13:18	history	answered	TRiG	CC BY-SA 3.0