Subject: bug#10554: 24.0.92; No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc)

From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:12:00 -0600

On Sat Jan 21 2012 Jay Belanger wrote:
> > So every plain, dimensionless number in Calc can be converted to
> > ones. "7" becomes "7 one",
> 
> There is no need for that.  "7" is fine.

But this implies that internally Calc must interpret "7" as if it
was "7 one". Only then can one convert "7" to other dimensionless
units such as the "e T nm^2 / hbar" that appeared in my original bug
report. 

Currently the latter unit conversion does require the superfluous
step that one tells Calc in one or the other way that "7" means "7 one".
I suggest that this superfluous step should not be required.

Roland