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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
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Authors : Jean-Claude Falmagne, Christopher Doble
Published in: On Meaningful Scientific Laws
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The mathematical expression of a scientific or geometric law typically does not depend on the units of measurement. For example, the statement of the Pythagorean Theorem, the equation of a parabola or the law of gravity do not depend on the units of measurement. The most important rationale for this convention is that measurement units do not appear in nature. Thus, any mathematical model or law whose form would be fundamentally altered by a change of units would be a poor representation of the empirical world.