/a></code></span>.
            Doing so, naturally, bypasses any type-checking of the newly assigned
            value, so this method should be used only when absolutely necessary.
          </li>
</ul></div>
<p>
        Of course, any time implicit conversion is allowed, an explicit conversion
        is also legal.
      </p>
<p>
        Because dimensionless quantities have no associated units, they behave as
        normal scalars, and allow implicit conversion to and from the underlying
        value 