From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-24T04:21:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Units

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Calamitas wrote:

>
>> I just noticed something. The Linux utility "units" handles both 
>> temperature
>> and temperature differences, and they are distinguished by syntax:
>> 
>> $ units "tempC(0)" tempF # absolute temperature
>>    32
>> 
>> $ units "32 degF" degC   # temperature difference
>>         * 17.777778
>>         / 0.05625
>> 
>> So it seems it has been done.
>
> We considered something like this too, but what bothers me is that
> tempC, tempF, degC and degF are no actual units.
>
> I think this is an issue with the people who started this library both
> being perfectionists. None of the solutions we could think of, are
> perfect.
>
> I'll see if I can get a tempC-degC like scheme to work, and then we
> can still decide this afterwards.

http://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#tempconvert

http://narray.rubyforge.org/quanty/quanty-en.html

regards.

-a
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