Re: Terrible unit trouble in Mathematic 9
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:59:33 -0500 (EST)
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Using "unit discovery" via WolframAlpha integration, if you need to, in Mathematica 9:
UnitConvert[Quantity[55, "Miles"/"Hours"],"Kilometers"/"Seconds"]
InputForm of the output is
Quantity[484/19685, "Kilometers"/"Seconds"]
but the output of the UnitConvert function displays (more or less) as:
484
----- km/s
19685
Of course, make the input approximate real, or apply N to the result to obtain a decimal answer.
On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:39 AM, tio540s1 at gmail.com wrote:
> I continue to receive "Unable to interpret unit specification m/s" (for example, but almost anything I attempt returns this message) with input:
> UnitConvert[55 mi/h,"m/s"] or UnitConvert[55 mi/h,m/s] or any other combination of quotes, omitted quotes, etc. Even the prediction/suggestion box, when I execute Quantity[55,"mi/hour"}, after it returns 55 mi/h, if I type in any combination of m/s, "m"/"s", "m/s", etc. into the box that opens when I select "Convert" in the prediction box yields the same "unable to interpret unit specification.
>
> What the heck????
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