On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:54:22AM +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Laurent writes: > > > Indeed, the notion of dimension is not really what I was after. My > intention was rather > > to provide a useful unit converter. > > Fair enough. > > > If my current units are in N, and I multiply by square seconds, I > > think it's not always desirable for the measure to be automatically > > converted to m.kg. > > N/s^2 and m kg are the same unit, so there is nothing to convert. The > normalized > form in the SI system is m kg, so one could consider N/s^2 an alias for it.
It's a matter of language here, not physics. N/s^2 and m kg may be the same units, but they are different words. Kind of a matter of user-interfacing. -- hendrik ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
