On 4/04/22 3:45 pm, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
An electron volt is a unit of energy. Or of mass. Or of momentum.
Well, in relativity they're all really the same thing, or at least interconvertible. But there are more glaring examples of this. What do you get when you multiply a number of newtons by a number of metres? It could be either joules of energy or newton-metres of torque, depending on what you're doing. You definitely don't want to add those together! I'm not sure how you teach a unit system to deal with things like that. Somehow when you do the multiplication you have to specify whether you're calculating energy or torque. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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/HJ3ODB625ZOWVY2NIDOQ2ZEGUA36Z3BI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
