"Strong typing vs. strong testing"

[Gregory Ewing]

Dann Corbit wrote:

> But in a very real sense it is a measure of rotation.  We could call it 
> a special measure, sort of like the way that e is a special base 
> compared to all others.

That's not the only thing that radians are useful for, though.
Consider a weight bobbing up and down on a spring, or anything
else with periodic behaviour. It's common to represent its
position in the oscillation cycle in terms of an angle, even
though nothing is actually rotating.

-- 
Greg