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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by labster on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:55PM (#12641455)
It is a 1-D measurement. It's the pressure exerted by the atmosphere that would raise a column of mercury that 1-D length up a vacuum at 1g of gravity.
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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by caf on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:18AM (#12641702)
It doesn't matter that you're measuring it in an odd way - pressure still has units of force per unit area. 1 "inch Hg" is 3386 Nm⁻².

The fact that you can express length as "number of football fields" doesn't make length dimensionless.

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