Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Garny
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Nickerson > Sent: 10 November 2006 06:40 > To: For those interested in contributing to the development of CellML. > Subject: Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units... > > I'm

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread David Nickerson
I'm really not sure how to address this other than suggesting that applications clearly state their units support status and provide some way to easily locate (and view?) instances where unit >> conversion factors have been added to the model (either at the >> connection le

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Garny
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Nickerson > Sent: 10 November 2006 06:25 > To: For those interested in contributing to the development of CellML. > Subject: Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units... > > >> I'm r

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread David Nickerson
>> I'm really not sure how to address this other than suggesting >> that applications clearly state their units support status >> and provide some way to easily locate (and view?) instances >> where unit conversion factors have been added to the model >> (either at the connection level or withi

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Garny
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Nickerson > Sent: 10 November 2006 03:18 > To: For those interested in contributing to the development of CellML. > Subject: Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units... > > >> CellM

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread David Nickerson
>> CellML processing software is not required to check for >> dimensional consistency at the equation level (but validating >> software would probably want to). Software is also not >> strictly required to convert at the connection level, >> although appendix C defines how to do this if softwar

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Garny
> > I was looking into units and was wondering something about > base units, > > which are not part of the SI base units... > > > > For instance, volt, which is part of the set of CellML base units > Volt is not a base unit, it is a standard derived unit. From Section > 5.2.1 of the CellML specif

Re: [cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Miller
Alan Garny wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking into units and was wondering something about base units, which > are not part of the SI base units... > > For instance, volt, which is part of the set of CellML base units Volt is not a base unit, it is a standard derived unit. From Section 5.2.1 of the Ce

[cellml-discussion] Quick questions about units...

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Garny
Hi, I was looking into units and was wondering something about base units, which are not part of the SI base units... For instance, volt, which is part of the set of CellML base units, is defined as kg.m^2.s^-3.A^-1 in SI base units. Now, say that I want to create a new unit called "volt per metr