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Temperature is an example of a scalar quantity. The temperature is simply a number of units: normal body temperature is 37° Celsius. You can't speak of an upward temperature, or a northeast temperature; it has no direction.
 
Temperature is an example of a scalar quantity. The temperature is simply a number of units: normal body temperature is 37° Celsius. You can't speak of an upward temperature, or a northeast temperature; it has no direction.
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The absolute of a vector quantity is again a scalar.  If the absolute of a vector quantity is zero, the vector quantity is assumed to have all possible directions at once.  Since the absolute is therefore all-encompassing, it is often argued to be identical with [[God]].<ref>Klanderman, D., Robbert, S., & Wheeler, R.:  "A Tale of Two Transitions," Proceedings of the 1997 Meeting of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences, Fall 1997</ref>
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