This is done very often in physics; without this feature I largely consider any units system useless.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Carl Witty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 20, 1:52 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (1) Are the list of all units one uses pretty standard? Is there >> a table, say in Wikipedia, with pretty much all of them? Or do >> people make up new units in the course of their work or research? > > For just day-to-day unit conversion, it would be great to be able to > make up new units and define their conversions; things like "1 > gallon_of_paint is 150 feet^2" or "100 paces is 237 feet". > > Carl > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
