ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

Laurent Pointal laurent.pointal at limsi.fr
Tue Oct 16 07:35:45 EDT 2007


juan at juanreyero.com a écrit :
> I am happy to announce the first release of magnitude, a
> library for computing with physical quantities. It is
> released under the Apache v. 2 license.
> 
> A physical quantity is a number with a unit, like 10
> km/h. Units can be any of the SI units, plus a bunch of
> non-SI, bits, dollars, and any combination of them. They can
> include the standard SI prefixes. Magnitude can operate with
> physical quantities, parse their units, and print them. You
> don't have to worry about unit consistency or conversions;
> everything is handled transparently. By default output is
> done in basic SI units, but you can specify any output unit,
> as long as it can be reduced to the basic units of the
> phisical quantity.
> 
> Home page: http://juanreyero.com/magnitude/ 
> 
> Feedback is appreciated.

How does it compare to the scalar module ?
(see http://russp.us/scalar.htm )




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