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Thank you for the pointers. A system of units is hobbled without including the necessary counts of objects/measurement events, which is open-ended. Mass per pe
by quantified 7y ago
Thank you for the pointers.
A system of units is hobbled without including the necessary counts of objects/measurement events, which is open-ended. Mass per person is different than mass per chicken or per 787, for example.
- gugagore 7y agoI mean, yes. It's also incomplete if it doesn't include a notion of directionality to e.g. distinguish between energy (force and displacement aligned) and torque (force and displacement perpendicular). The SI system isn't perfect, but expressing at least some dimensional information to be checked by machine feels like a step in the right direction.
- quantified 7y agoIt certainly is. The more meaning we need to attach to a number, the more expensive it is, and SI is a really good start.
- roel_v 7y agoGood libraries will let you define custom units that let you express things like this. Boost.Units does.