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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > 
> > Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:
> > > Of course, it could be made much more sophisticated too. 
> > In what way?
> 
> Adding scaling, like "kilo" and "centi" and such, just as an example. 

That's just another unit, although I suppose some automated support
for it might be nice.

> Dealing with things like "area=length*length*length" as another
> example.

Yes, we'd want to define secondary types in terms of primary types.

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-- Stephe