Re: dimensional analysis and units - pint does units: https://github.com/hgrecco/pint https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/blob/master/pint/default_en.txt
- CSVW can handle units (with QUDT URIs) - {CSV, JSON,} don't include support for datatypes or units - ( Spreadsheet tools should handle units (and significant digits) just as well as they handle columnar/series/range text formatting. #LinkedReproducibility ) On Monday, September 4, 2017, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, September 4, 2017, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kirby.ur...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> PS: >> >> my recent exercises in teaching math with Python, ala Peter Farrell, is >> sparking some heated debate on math-teach. >> >> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2876811 (especially in >> recent days, early September 2017) >> >> Bob Hansen is trashing this writing as some of the worst pedagogy he's >> ever seen. >> >> I'm trying to incorporate some of his feedback in my latest revisions. >> > > Maybe a bit OT: > > I've wondered whether we could/should instead start mathematics education > with bits as entropy (information theory first)?: > > - base 2: 00, 01, 10, 11 (on our hands (2**?)) > - counting > - ASCII (0-127) > - how do we know the number represents an integer or a character? ... > Encoding, Types > - The number zero is actually # (code point): ___ > - Unicode > - class SpecialString(str) > > > - Binary and then floating point arithmetic > - unary, binary operators > - import operators: sorted(dir(operators)) > - left and right shift > - multiplication as repeated addition > - long division > - floating point (error, BigFloat) > - symbolic mathematics > - MathJax, LaTeX (how to even type this?) > - CAS: SymPy, latex2sympy > > - Entropy > - Independence of observations > - Maximum Information > > ... > > class Shape > class Quadrilateral > class Rectangle > class Square > class Triangle > class RightTriangle > def perimiter > def area > def vertexes > > def scale > def rotate > > class PlatonicSolid > > ... > > Are there computer science & mathematics curricula like this (that start > with entropy)? > > > >> Our debates are reminiscent of some we've had here on this list in years >> gone by. >> >> I've also been chronicling my progress in this related thread: >> >> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2877392 >> >> Kirby >> >> >>
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