Why are radians the standard?
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Why do we require radians in calculus?
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Why is the determinant of a rotation matrix equal to 1?
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Why Does Snell's Law use Sine Instead of Angle Values?
58249
Why do we use a Least Squares fit?
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Why do people use real values for the Wick-rotated time $\tau$?
152417
Why to report R squared?
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Why the first moment is standardized before computing higher moments, but higher moments are not?
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Why radian is dimensionless?
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Quaternions, Rotations and Real numbers
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What units does the rotation argument expect when creating objects?
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Deriving or justifying fundamental constants
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Why is the squared difference so commonly used?
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Why are angles dimensionless and quantities such as length not?
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Why does the tangent of numbers very close to $\frac{\pi}{2}$ resemble the number of degrees in a radian?
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Why use vectors to describe velocity/force/etc instead of treating magnitude and direction as separate values?
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How do the radian have a unit?
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Why is it important that a basis be orthonormal?