Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:02:59 -0700
On Tuesday 18 June 2024 10:06:09 GMT-7 Charles R Hogg via Std-Proposals wrote:
> A basic design principle for a units library is that the result of a
> computation shouldn't conjure up any units not mentioned in the inputs.
Why not? If I multiply an acceleration by mass, why should I not get newtons?
If I divide a charge by time, should I not get amperes?
PS: would this proposed API support a unit like ns/√km ?
> A basic design principle for a units library is that the result of a
> computation shouldn't conjure up any units not mentioned in the inputs.
Why not? If I multiply an acceleration by mass, why should I not get newtons?
If I divide a charge by time, should I not get amperes?
PS: would this proposed API support a unit like ns/√km ?
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Fleet Systems Engineering
Received on 2024-06-19 01:03:04