When the reference measurement is precisely defined and internationally agreed upon, arbitrary units can also be a unit capable of public comparison.
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The first description of infrastructures in number fields of arbitrary unit rank was given by R . Schoof using Arakelov divisors in 2008.
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The Christian calendar we live with is constant with the solar year, but the months are arbitrary units simply dividing the world into conventional periods,
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Resulting passband signal ( bottom diagram ) . " A ( f ) " is the frequency function of the signal or filter in arbitrary units.
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The unit of the x-axis is temperature in Kelvin, the unit of the y-axis is an arbitrary unit, in fact the intensity of a mass spectrometer measurement.
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In three-dimensional Euclidean space, the cross product of two arbitrary unit vectors is a 3rd vector orthogonal to both of them having length equal to the sine of the smaller subtended angle.
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:: If you can buy one economist who thinks that'price'has a rational relationship to'value'for 1, 000 arbitrary units of exchange, how much should you pay for two economists who think the same thing?
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In order to determine the required size of pipe, an arbitrary unit is used for pipe sizing which takes into account the likelihood that all the fixtures will not be used at the same time.
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Atomic units are often abbreviated " a . u . " or " au ", not to be confused with the same abbreviation used also for astronomical units, arbitrary units, and absorbance units in different contexts.
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Although absorbance is properly unitless, it is sometimes reported in " arbitrary units ", or AU . Many people, including scientific researchers, wrongly state the results from absorbance measurement experiments in terms of these made-up units.
