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| Nov 11, 2020 at 15:24 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | Only a subset of typical algebraic rules applies to units or physical values, respectively. I cannot arbitrarily add them for instance. Also, how do you define a mathematical symbol other than something to which the rules of algebra apply? And why are units such symbols and not something else? | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 15:02 | history | answered | R.W. Bird | CC BY-SA 4.0 |