Re: beginner question regarding units in equations
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- Subject: [mg123934] Re: beginner question regarding units in equations
- From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:01:02 -0500 (EST)
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See the Wolfram blog entry of Jon McLoone regarding a souped-up version of the Units package, which seems very promising: http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/12/09/automatic-physical-units-in-mathematica/ Download: http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/7655/ Although I am not using units in my calculations, I´d very much like to see seamless unit integration in the future. This will help convincing e.g. engineers that switching from their (probably inferior, but unit-capable) products to Mathematica might be a good idea. Regards, Yves Am 29.12.2011 08:53, schrieb RDog: > I am a very new user so I apologize in advance if this question is too > basic for the group. > > Many civil engineering equations are empirically derived and therefore > the units dont work out exactly. How does Mathematica handle units in > equations and especially in empirical equations where there may be > parameters set to weird exponetial powers. Does the program use units > at all in equations or does the user need to keep track? > >