Re: Gettting Rid of units
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- Subject: [mg16570] Re: Gettting Rid of units
- From: Harald Giese <giese at dkrz.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:54:52 -0500
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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"Robert B. Love" wrote:
>
> I have a function I can call that returns a list of angles
> with "Degree" attached, like this:
>
> {96.231 Degree, 96.8642 Degree...}
>
> I can't see how to remove the "Degree" unit. What I want is a
> list of pure values. I confess I don't know how the unit is
> attached and I don't have source for the function called.
> ...
Hi Robert,
The Mathematica Help says:
"Degree gives the number of radians in one degree. It has a numerical
value of Pi/180."
You can easily remove it by dividing your list with Degree:
{96.231 Degree, 96.8642 Degree...} / Degree
Regards,
Harald
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