C Y wrote: > > Oh, while I remember - would it workable to adopt the following > notation for reduced dimensions? > > Say we have a dimension Force, and when we reduce it we have > Mass*Length/Time^2 (I'd use the work example but I'm running late.) > Say we want those to be reduced dimensions - can we use this notation > or are Axiom's output forms not that flexible: > > Mass[r]*Length[r]/Time[r]^2 > > I don't know how we want to denote this on units - my thinking at the > moment is that reduced dimensions don't have reduced units, but that's > just off the cuff. > No [IMHO]. This adds something unconventional and complicates things. There should be no difference in the output form. It should be quite obvious that a dimension or unit output is reduced or not. Plus, there are dimensions whose reduced dimension is identical to the dimension. The user can also explicitly ask for a reduced dimension through functions such as reduce(identifier). Reduced dimension can have reduced units (why not)?
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