Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 5:16:53 AM UTC+12, Ian wrote:

> For local variables I usually wouldn't bother with the units, but in
> general it's a good practice to help avoid crashing your orbiter into
> Mars.

The Mars Climate Orbiter fiasco wasn’t a problem with using the wrong units (dimensional analysis would have picked that up), but with using wrong unit _systems_.

Ironic to see a country that fought a war to liberate itself from an empire, still stay so wedded to “imperial” units...