On Sunday 04 December 2005 13:49, Terry Simpson wrote:
> I looked at your code. I notice that you have copied their sequence (m, kg,
> s, A, K). That seems reasonable to me.

I have a lot more quantities to do, which don't have single-word names.

> How would 26 picograms be encoded, or 230 volts? Can you give some other
> examples?

26 pg: (2.6e-14, 0x00020a00).
26.00 pg: (2.6e-14, 0x00020a02).
26+3/8 pg: (2.6375e-14, 0x00020a13). This sort of format is intended for 
inches, but I haven't defined the code for inches yet.
0.026 ng: (2.6e-14, 0x00020b03).
230 V: (2.3e2, 0x000e1000).

I'm not clear what the difference is between an amu and a gram per mole. The 
amu (or dalton - if prefixes are added to this unit it's generally called a 
dalton) should get the code 0x000230 while the gram per mole would get a code 
beginning with some other four-nybble number, but the mass of a molecule in 
amu is the same as the number of grams in a mole of them.

phma

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