> This is just flatly wrong of usage in particle physics. Electron volts are > precisely the default units used to describe the mass of subatomic > particles. I don't know what to tell you man. Here's Wikipedia. If you follow the link to the actual SI publication, it says the same thing. How something is used is not the same as how it is defined. I might use my car key to open my mail, but if I ask someone if they've seen my letter opener, they're probably not going to be able to help me find my car keys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_units_mentioned_in_the_SI > Yes, limiting the idea to ""SI units" would cover far less. And thereby > have far less motivation to change Python syntax rather than use a library. Not sure what you mean by "cover far less". Even implementing just the 29 base and derived SI units would have a profound impact on the work done by engineers and scientists on a day to day basis. And the impact of such a change will only grow more in importance over time. As I mentioned in another reply, adding in the remaining SI units AND the Imperial / US Customary still only brings up a grand total of 160 units. There are other systems too, but they all use units that are defined elsewhere. FWIW, I do not subscribe to the mindset of "Well, I had to do it this way, so why can't you kids learn to do it this way too?" _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/LT5FR273U322SCXJLEVZ7VNFH645KRAP/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
