Jonathan wrote:

> To give people an idea how a working physical scientist uses this, I
> include a section of the function I use to set up my calculations with
> units.  One problem with this implementation is that it does not
> account the limited number of significant figures in most of the
> physical constants. I don't usually worry about this because my
> measurements usually have larger errors, which I account for using
> standard error propagation techniques (another simple package I've
> written for myself).


Could the units package could use standard Sage interval arithmetic in 
order to automatically propagate errors?  Of course, larger errors could 
be propagated too, if the numbers were specified as Sage interval objects.

Jason


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