GNU bug report logs - #10554
24.0.92; No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #52 received at 10554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#10554: 24.0.92;
	No units specified (dimensionless quantities in Emacs Calc)
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:45:21 -0600

> If the old expression was "7 in / m" and the new unit is "1", this
> should be converted to 0.178,
>
> - This is already the answer we get from calc-simplify-units.

Right, so if the user wants the units simplified, they can call
calc-simplify-units.  If the user wants to convert units, they can call
calc-convert-units.

> 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.

Jay
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