RE: [boost] Yet Another Units Library

From: Paul A. Bristow (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-26 07:05:22

This looks interesting - meeting many of the 'requirements' we have discussed.

The demo of 'medieval' units system of furlong/stone/fortnight is quite
persuasive - only slightly sillier than 'Imperial/US' still in very widespread
use ;-)

(And I recollect that fortnight^-1 proved a convenient unit for chemical
reaction kinetics).

Since the main non-SI requirements are for subatomic particle physics,
astronomy, and Imperial/US, these would be very useful demos.

What about radians, and trig functions etc?

Log scales like dB are also widely used - have you any ideas about dealing with
these, if 'far out'.

I look forward to trying it using MSVC 7.1.

Paul

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of Matthias Schabel
| Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:43 AM
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: [boost] Yet Another Units Library
|
|
| There seems to be significant interest in a library which deals with
| dimensioned
| units with no runtime cost, given the email traffic over the past few
| weeks.  I've been
| following the thread with interest as I had already implemented a units
| library of my
| own.
| The library is in the usual place, including a test routine :
| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/mcs_units.zip,
| and works with both GCC 3.1 and CodeWarrior 8.3 (mostly) under Mac OS X.
|
| Matthias
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