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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Question on types conversions - operations
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:40:33 +0200
Date: 2009-06-15T10:40:33+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e151h.kgc.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2e347bf-e147-4338-ba18-8cfeef9cea8f@d25g2000prn.googlegroups.com>

sjw a �crit :
>> With S := Speed(Float(L) / Float(T)) ? Mmmm ... not nice.
>>
Why not nice? You are performing (for good reasons) a non homogenous
operation. Therefore you go to the no-dimension world (convert to
Float), do your operation there, then return to the dimensioned world
(convert to Speed).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-13 15:51 Question on types conversions - operations Olivier Scalbert
2009-06-13 16:13 ` Robert Matthews
2009-06-13 16:55 ` anon
2009-06-13 16:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-06-13 16:59 ` sjw
2009-06-13 17:24   ` Martin
2009-06-13 19:35     ` sjw
2009-06-14  8:22     ` sjw
2009-06-15  8:40   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2009-06-15  9:30     ` Olivier Scalbert
2009-06-15  9:51       ` stefan-lucks
2009-06-15 10:33     ` AdaMagica
2009-06-15 19:37     ` sjw
2009-06-13 19:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-06-14 15:55   ` Robert A Duff
2009-06-15  8:52 ` AdaMagica
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