concept scalar

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Description

A dimensionless_quantity ¹ which can be described by a single element of a number field or a quantity q ² in a system of units whose numeric_value(possibly found by recursing into the dimensionless_quantity it returns from get_numeric_value(q) ) can be described by a single element of a number field.

Notes

• [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_(mathematics)
• [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_(physics)