The requests would be a dimension-less quantity. There are a few examples of what those are and how they fit in:
- The frames in frames per second are dimensionless, thus the SI unit for FPS is frames/s. When the frames are periodic, such as monitor refresh rates are, the unit is Hz.
- Percentages are dimensionless quantities too, produced by divinding two quantities of the same dimension (ie unit). CPU%? That’s "busy second per second", which is dimensionless, and expressed as a percentage.
A dimensionless quantities don’t have any physical backing reality in terms of the, well, dimension in which you could measure it. Time, space, mass, etc.
Fun fact: angles are dimensionless! Both degrees and radians are just shorthands as divisions of the unit circle.
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The requests would be a dimension-less quantity. There are a few examples of what those are and how they fit in:
- The frames in frames per second are dimensionless, thus the SI unit for FPS is frames/s. When the frames are periodic, such as monitor refresh rates are, the unit is Hz.
- Percentages are dimensionless quantities too, produced by divinding two quantities of the same dimension (ie unit). CPU%? That’s "busy second per second", which is dimensionless, and expressed as a percentage.
A dimensionless quantities don’t have any physical backing reality in terms of the, well, dimension in which you could measure it. Time, space, mass, etc.
Fun fact: angles are dimensionless! Both degrees and radians are just shorthands as divisions of the unit circle.