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People have always observed natural phenomena and then verbalized their observations for discussion with others. With the development of physics, the words in the verbal descriptions were given symbols, which could then be manipulated according to the rules of mathematics.
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Garcia, N., Damask, A. (1991). Physical Quantities. In: Physics for Computer Science Students. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0421-0_1
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