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From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 10554@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10554: 24.0.92; No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:45:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739b9w1vi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250.33882.89017.12372@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:24:42 -0600")


> If the old expression was "7 in / m" and the new unit is "1", this
> should be converted to 0.178,
>
> - This is already the answer we get from calc-simplify-units.

Right, so if the user wants the units simplified, they can call
calc-simplify-units.  If the user wants to convert units, they can call
calc-convert-units.

> So every plain, dimensionless number in Calc can be converted to
> ones. "7" becomes "7 one",

There is no need for that.  "7" is fine.

Jay






  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-21 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-19  5:24 bug#10554: 24.0.92; No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc) Roland Winkler
2012-01-19 21:45 ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-19 22:33   ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-20  4:53     ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-20  8:34       ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-20 16:48         ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-20 17:55           ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-20 19:10             ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-20 20:30               ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-20 20:54                 ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-20 22:10                   ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-21  0:00                     ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-21  9:24                       ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-21 14:45                         ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2012-01-21 15:12                           ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-21 15:28                             ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-21 15:42                         ` Jay Belanger
2012-01-21 16:03                           ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-20 20:36               ` Roland Winkler
2012-01-21  4:21 ` Jay Belanger

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