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Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ... by Someone on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:44AM (#35628787)
It gets worse when you call it 14.4 (arc) minutes per hour.

Ignoring the ‘arc’, that’s dimensionless. You could just call it “0.24” ;-)

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Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:33PM (#35630950)
I guess it depends on how you do the ignoring. "minutes" by itself usually means "minutes of hour", but I would argue that if you take "minutes of arc" and ignore the "arc" the better answer is "minutes of ____"
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