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Units with plots?

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  • Subject: [mg130095] Units with plots?
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 16:48:28 -0500 (EST)
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Should the new Mathematica 9 functionality of built-in units handling be extended from numerics and symbolics to graphics, too?

For example, whereas the following is allowed with units . . .

  Plot[x^2, {x, Quantity[0, "Meters"], Quantity[1, "Meters"]}]

. . . Quantity does not seem to be allowed in expressions such as:

  Graphics[Disk[{Quantity[0, "Meters"], Quantity[0, "Meters"]},
  Quantity[2, "Meters"]]]

The built-in QuantityMagnitude applied to the arguments can take care of that, but it seems to me that a fully integrated handling of units shouldn't require that -- unless, perhaps, the overhead of checking for units as arguments is just too high at present.

(This question was motivated by the post http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/20867/plotting-with-units.)
 
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