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30.0.50; Update astronomial length units in Calc

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From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: 66433 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66433: 30.0.50; Update astronomial length units in Calc
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:09:39 +0200

OK to merge this to master?

From 44fcab5b4ec5e1175dd03e7c1b92e577ec689189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:58:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update astronomical length units in Calc

* lisp/calc/calc-units.el (math-standard-units): Update the
astronomical unit and the parsec, using their definitions by the
International Astronomical Union.
---
 lisp/calc/calc-units.el | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/calc/calc-units.el b/lisp/calc/calc-units.el
index 988fef2fcd2..96cf0840d15 100644
--- a/lisp/calc/calc-units.el
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc-units.el
@@ -57,12 +57,14 @@ math-standard-units
     ( ft      "12 in"                "Foot")
     ( yd      "3 ft"                 "Yard" )
     ( mi      "5280 ft"              "Mile" )
-    ( au      "149597870691. m"      "Astronomical Unit" nil
-              "149597870691 m (*)")
-              ;; (approx) NASA JPL (https://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/glossary/au.html)
+    ( au      "149597870700. m"      "Astronomical Unit" nil
+              "149597870700 m")
+              ;; "149 597 870 700 m exactly"
+              ;; http://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/IAU2012_English.pdf
     ( lyr     "c yr"                 "Light Year" )
-    ( pc      "3.0856775854*10^16 m" "Parsec  (**)" nil
-              "3.0856775854 10^16 m (*)") ;; (approx) ESUWM
+    ( pc      "(648000/pi) au"       "Parsec (**)")
+              ;; "The parsec is defined as exactly (648 000/π) au"
+              ;; http://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/IAU2015_English.pdf
     ( nmi     "1852 m"               "Nautical Mile" )
     ( fath    "6 ft"                 "Fathom" )
     ( fur     "660 ft"               "Furlong")
-- 
2.42.0

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