Questions about calculating with units in Mathematica.
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Incomplete implementation of units?
I've been playing around with the new units capability in MMA9 and I'm becoming a bit frustrated with what I perceive as an incomplete implementation of this capability and I'm wondering if there are ...
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Quantity and Trig functions
I have a bunch of data to which I've assigned units using Quantity, including some angular measurements in degrees. I'd like to be able to use these measurements ...
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UnitConvert: the square of a dimensionless quantity is not dimensionless
This is pretty ridiculous. Look at the following code:
UnitConvert[Quantity["FineStructureConstant"], 1]^2
0.0000532513545
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How can I say that all quantities need to be positive (and real)?
Can you say at the beginning of a script in mathematica that you want all the quantities to be positive (and real)? So that in all calculations, only the real values of these quantities will be ...
