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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: WG: SI Units - has Ada missed the boat?
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On Jul 9, 9:55 am, "Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)"
<Christoph.Gr...@eurocopter.com> wrote:
> I have to admit that I was the main perpetrator who killed that
> proposal.

And I'm ok with that - it clearly wasn't going to be solved in time.
Shame though.


> I don't know C++ and so I do not know how it deals mit rad, Newton
> Meters and Joule in
>
> Work [Joule] = Torque [Newton*Meter] * Angle [rad]

Certainly Nm is covered. I've never seen a Nmrad before, so no idea!


> Or sin x = x + x**3/3! + ... where x is in rad, sin x has dimension 1
> (not rad).

Doubtful... This one seems like a real corner case and I'm not sure it
would be worth covering in any languages implementation. Seems like
we'd be letter "best" be the evil of "good enough" here.


> Or Bq = 1/s, Hz = 1/s, but Bq /= Hz.

Certainly the reference implementation has Bq and Hz defined
separately.


Cheers
-- Martin