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Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module
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Pierre de Buyl |
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Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:48:25 +0100 |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:39:51PM -0500, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Following external pressure to publish or perish, I revised the units
> module by defining the "SI" unit system to encompass SI base units,
> SI derived units, and SI prefixes [1].
>
> [1] http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/general.html
>
> I also updated the test case in lua-units [2].
>
> [2] http://git.colberg.org/lua-units/tree/examples/h5md.lua
>
> The solution will make everybody unhappy. For the use of non-SI units,
> the unit attribute can still be written using a scalar prefix and an
> SI unit. Alternatively, the values can be converted to an SI unit
> using the cv_convert_* functions [3] of the udunits2 library.
>
> [3]
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/udunits-2.2.2/doc/udunits/udunits2lib.html#Value-Conversion
Hi Peter,
Thanks a lot! I don't see how one could be unhappy? Starting with SI seems the
most sensible thing to do :-)
'units' seems set, I'll take a look tomorrow indeed :-)
Pierre
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Felix Höfling, 2014/01/07
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Konrad Hinsen, 2014/01/09
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Felix Höfling, 2014/01/09
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Pierre de Buyl, 2014/01/10
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Peter Colberg, 2014/01/13
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module,
Pierre de Buyl <=
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Felix Höfling, 2014/01/14
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Pierre de Buyl, 2014/01/14
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Pierre de Buyl, 2014/01/14
- Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module, Pierre de Buyl, 2014/01/14