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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Amendments in calc-units.el
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:12:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <851x2k62hy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mzl8ac0j.fsf@lugabout.cloos.reno.nv.us> (James Cloos's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:33:16 -0400")

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
>
>>> P.S.: The patch also removes the "degree" for "Kelvin".
>
> Jay> Why?
>
> There is no such thing as degrees Kelvin, there are only Kelvins.

The question is whether its the business of calc to be convenient or
to educate.  Of course, K should be available as a unit of its own,
but I see no harm by degK being an alias.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-17  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-15 17:23 Amendments in calc-units.el Torsten Bronger
2005-10-15 19:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-16  8:45   ` Torsten Bronger
2005-10-17  3:12     ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-17  6:33       ` James Cloos
2005-10-17  7:12         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-10-18  8:04           ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-16  1:56 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-16  7:26   ` David Kastrup
2005-10-18 19:41   ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-18 21:33     ` Miles Bader
2005-10-18 21:42       ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-18 22:01         ` David Kastrup
2005-10-19  9:05         ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-10-19 21:01           ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-10-18 21:39     ` David Kastrup
2005-10-18 22:04       ` Miles Bader
2005-10-18 22:15         ` David Kastrup
2005-10-19 14:01           ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-19 20:29           ` Jay Belanger

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