Re: [OctDev] Octave interface to GNU units

[Adrian M. <ra...@co...>]

The only reason I can imagine why they would use version 1.0 is that
later versions are under the GNU license, which is more restrictive
than the license on version 1.0.  (Technically speaking, I suppose
this means units 1.0 is not actually GNU units.)  

Adrian Mariano
Author of GNU units


On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:51:05PM -0500, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> For some reason the MacOS 10.3 version of units is missing things such 
> as
> Pa for pascals (it thinks it is Peta-atto) and J for joules, so the demo
> doesn't work very well.  I don't know why they use an ancient version.
> 
> $ units -v
> 
>   units version 1.0  Copyright (c) 1993 by Adrian Mariano
> 
> 
> On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Carl Osterwisch wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Here is my submission for an octave interface to the GNU units program
> >(http://www.gnu.org/software/units) which is immensely useful in
> >engineering calculations to convert from one measurement to another.
> >The benefit of using this octave function over hard coded constant
> >conversion factors is cleaner, more maintainable code.
> >
> >I have included demo and test procedures at the bottom.  This should
> >fit nicely in the "mapping" subdirectory of octave-forge which already
> >contains functions to convert between angular measurements.
> >
> >Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.
> >-Carl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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