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by dan_hawkins 974 days ago
> Incidentally, why is the degree immune to disappearance in division unlike all other units?

It's not. If you divide temperature by temperature (T/T) you get unitless value. But it doesn't make sense (what does it mean Kelvins per Kelvin?) Your mistake is to take a scalar value for temperature: 300 K / 2 = 150 K (T/scalar = T).