On Monday, 11 February 2013 at 22:33:02 UTC, Arlen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:18 PM, develop32
<develo...@gmail.com> wrote:
How about something like meters!15 or newtons!30? For me it is
more pleasing and shorter than multiplication.
'meters!15' is supposed to be '15 * meters', right? Then how
would you express '15 / meters' ? You cannot; therefore,
'meters!15' doesn't make sense.
It does if you have a universal base you are working from. Like
converting currency you convert most likely from the one currency
to an intermediate, then the intermediate to your desired
currency, that way you only have 2 steps and a small table vs
making the ratios for every possible type.
So if 1 meter suddenly is say 100,000, then 15 * meter and
meters!15 / meter (or feet!100 / meters) makes perfect sense!
15 * meters, has an output '15 m' which is short for '15 m^1'.
The exponent is not shown when it's 1. 15 / meters, has an
output '15 m^-1'
