# Why won't Mathematica work with quantities or Quantity[]? [closed]

As you can see in the screenshot below, Mathematica is simply not evaluating any quantities. It is simply listing them as I wrote them. Could anybody give me a pointer as to why this may be?

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I have tried to reproduce your posted results in V9.0.1 running on OS X, but could not. I get the expected results. –  m_goldberg Mar 30 '14 at 1:43
is there any reason you are using this mode to input the quantity? –  olliepower Mar 30 '14 at 17:18
Just a longshot, but when I have weird stuff that doesn't seem to be working that really should, I can often fix the problem by either killing the Kernel (Evaluation/Quit Kernal) or by quitting out of Mathematica and restarting it. Not an answer, just a fix to weird problems. –  Andy Mobley Mar 30 '14 at 17:27
Thanks @AndyMobley, I just killed and restarted Mathematica and things seem to be working as expected again. I'll try that immediately next time –  Aron Mar 31 '14 at 7:55

Quantity[2, "miles"] + Quantity[4, "miles"]