On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 03:58, Marco Sulla <marco.sulla.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 07:47, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Not a particle physicist, so I don't know what the usage actually is, > > but wouldn't mass actually be eV/c²? If that's frequently written as > > simply "eV", then that's another example of common non-SI usage that > > really should be supportable, but only within its context. > > Brian probably referred to a geometrized unit system, where the speed > of light c is set to one. This is very common in particle physics, it > simplifies the formulas. Also other quantities are usually set to 1, > as the charge of the electron etc.
Not sure what you mean by "geometrized", but that would be the same concept as referring to "natural units", wouldn't it? In any case: the speed of light might be 1, but it's still 1 distance divided by 1 time. > That said, it's clear that a unit system is much more complicated > than, for example, a timezone support. A task that many languages > delegate to third party libraries, because it's a huge task, it's > specialized and... it's boring. Timezone support is a pretty big nightmare too :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/IAASVMVUYIH7PRW3KQRGMU6KXIZYV5WF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
