On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Bryan Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Attached (new revision from my sandbox git repository). Any ideas on
>> how to go about getting these tests to pass? Maybe there's some
>> architecture changes that need to be made?
>
> The tests you wrote are all pretty simple, e.g. integrating a constant
> function and such. If this is all you want, it could be implemented by
> enhancing the integrate() function to handle units (I am not much
> convinced that is the way to go though).

That's true, I only had a few integrations in there. I don't think
that captures the essence of what I am trying to convey though. I
would like this to work not only with integrate(), but also diff(),
limit(), pow(), factorial(), etc. etc. In other words,
across-the-board integration (which has something to do with the class
architecture). I guess I was lazy though 8-) because I didn't write
unit tests for every possible situation in sympy where units should be
handled correctly.

> But how would you like to work with this:
>
> # i(t) = I_p * sin(2 * pi * f * t)
> # di(t)/dt = 2 * pi * f * I_p * cos(2 * pi * f * t)
>
> do you want "t" to be a symbol, or something that also holds units?
> The same question about I_p and f.

er, great question. Those were really just notes for my later usage.
In the case of i(t), that was current as a function of time. So in
that case, I guess i(t) is really saying i(t) is a function equivalent
to (the given expression). I don't know how to do functions in sympy
yet. So, I think if sympy's Function() implemented units as well, then
all would be well (er, right?).

> And you then want sympy to automatically handle i(t) and di(t)/dt?

I am not sure.

> Yes, that would be cool to figure out how to do it. First I'd like to
> understand more how you want to work with it exactly.

Mainly so that I can use symbolic expressions and have variables with
units that are taken care of throughout the manipulations that the
expressions call for. That's all, I guess.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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