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:Are you saying you have problem with abstract thinking? Why should matter if the unit circle had radius 1 yard, 1 foot, 1 meter or 1 lightsecond? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:12, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
 
:Are you saying you have problem with abstract thinking? Why should matter if the unit circle had radius 1 yard, 1 foot, 1 meter or 1 lightsecond? -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:12, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
 
::I don’t like having things defined as “x” and like to have exact measurements. The diagram just looks cleaner to me that way '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#A9C6CA">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#516874">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 23:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
 
::I don’t like having things defined as “x” and like to have exact measurements. The diagram just looks cleaner to me that way '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#A9C6CA">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#516874">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 23:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
:::There's nothing stopping you from considering non-dimensional lengths to be whatever unit you want.  If you just write in, for example, "cm" after any linear dimensions, and corresponding units for areas and volumes, that's fine.
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:::There's nothing stopping you from considering non-dimensional lengths to be whatever unit you want.  If you just write in, for example, "cm" after any linear dimensions, and corresponding units for areas and volumes, that's fine.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.169|162.158.158.169]] 14:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
 
::I prefer units of light-nanoseconds or the metric version parnsecs (don't think about it too hard :P) {{unsigned|SammyChips}} SammyChips 23:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
 
::I prefer units of light-nanoseconds or the metric version parnsecs (don't think about it too hard :P) {{unsigned|SammyChips}} SammyChips 23:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
 
:::I like [[3038|square acrminutes per steradian]] '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#A9C6CA">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#516874">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 02:38, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
 
:::I like [[3038|square acrminutes per steradian]] '''[[User:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:#A9C6CA">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#516874">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 02:38, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

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First 162.158.175.72 23:00, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

This would actually be so helpful for my geometry class right now 42.book.addictTalk to me! 23:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Are you saying you have problem with abstract thinking? Why should matter if the unit circle had radius 1 yard, 1 foot, 1 meter or 1 lightsecond? -- Hkmaly (talk) 23:12, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
I don’t like having things defined as “x” and like to have exact measurements. The diagram just looks cleaner to me that way 42.book.addictTalk to me! 23:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
There's nothing stopping you from considering non-dimensional lengths to be whatever unit you want. If you just write in, for example, "cm" after any linear dimensions, and corresponding units for areas and volumes, that's fine.162.158.158.169 14:24, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
I prefer units of light-nanoseconds or the metric version parnsecs (don't think about it too hard :P) -- SammyChips (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~) SammyChips 23:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
I like square acrminutes per steradian 42.book.addictTalk to me! 02:38, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Please sign off with ~~~~, or change your signature to include a link to either your talk page or user page. Thank you! 42.book.addictTalk to me! 01:25, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
SammyChips, if that is supposed to be Parallax nano-seconds, you should understand that that is probably more like a Giga-Parsec. The parsec is the distance at which an object appears to move one second of arc when the Earth moves halfway around its orbit. (though I'm not sure which orientation.) Divad27182 (talk) 03:34, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
My Millennium Falcon gets 14 parsecs to the Kessel Run, and that’s the way I likes it! 172.68.186.34 06:26, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
I'm going to take all these desires for weird units with a barn-megaparsec of nackle. 172.69.195.160 07:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
yo Tori, this might help you with geometry too ;) Caliban (talk) 11:14, 23 January 2025 (UTC)



Are "they" also searching for Apollo's doubled altar? Divad27182 (talk) 03:22, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

I guess the correct wording is that $\pi$ is a trancendent number. Some irrational numbers e.g. $\sqrt{2}$ can be constructed by compass and ruler. 172.68.185.165 (talk) 07:12, 23 January 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

To be more precise, constructable irrational numbers are those that can be obtained through taking square roots, even repeatedly. Transcendental numbers are out, but so are things like cube roots. Note also that the fact that there are no "absolute units" of length is a quirk of Euclidean geometry -- in, say, hyperbolic world, a unit circle like this could actually work. 172.68.213.153 09:10, 23 January 2025 (UTC)