On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:38:39PM -0000, Jim Wilson wrote:
> > OK, if you really want to save percent for 0-100 quantities, how about
> > something a little shorter than -fraction, -ratio
> > (-fraction is perfectly good, just long)
> 
> But if those settings don't represent a form of units--just arbitrary values,
> why do they need a suffix?  The suffixes were intended to reflect units and
> make sense only when they mean something, like knowing if the value is in feet
> or meters, degrees or radians, knots or fps.

To me, no units specified does not automatically imply non-dimensional.
It means I still have to ask what the units are.

> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
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