On 2011-12-07 Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 22:27, Marco wrote:

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There seems to be a bug in the new unit system for \unit{kbit}:

% bit \unit{kilo bit}  % kbit \unit{kilobit}   % kbit \unit{kbit}      % kB, shouldn't this be kbit?

kB is kilobyte, not kilobit,

Exactly, \unit{kbit} should output kbit, instead of kB.

but "kb" is probably also valid?

I don't know, if kb is a valid shortcut for kilo bit. kB outputs kB (kilo byte). I would vote for that kb outputs kbit (kilo bit). But that \unit{kbit} yields kB is definitely wrong.

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\unit{3.4e-5} yields to 3.4⁻⁵ that's expected according to the manual.

But the behaviour is wrong.

I don't know if it's wrong. It's very non-intuitive, but I think Hans had a reason not to include the \cdot 10.

(I just want to say that \cdot 10^{-5} should not be just an option, but the default behaviour.)

+1 Regards Marco Patzer

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 00:12, Marco wrote:

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On 2011-12-07 Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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\unit{3.4e-5}   yields   to  3.4⁻⁵   that's   expected according to the manual.

But the behaviour is wrong.

I don't know if it's wrong.

But 5e3 would render 5^3 which is hopefully still 125.

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It's very non-intuitive, but I think Hans had a reason not to include the \cdot 10.

\cdot 10^{x} is pretty long and might be ugly. But writing out exponent without the base is everything but the right approach. Even writing out 5e3 is better than that.

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I've seen many people writing 5e3 to mean 5·10³, but I've never seen 5e3 to mean 5³. The writing 5e3 = 5·10³ is sometimes called the E-notation [1]. Even though I would never write it like that myself, I vote that 5e3 will render as 5·10³ (or with \times instead of \cdot). Best regards, Mikael [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E_notation PS One could ask, however, if this really belongs to a unit package. In my world it does not, but I can understand if it is convenient to have there.

On 9-12-2011 20:41, Marco wrote:

One feature request: Could it be make configurable to either insert a \times or a \cdot?

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On 9-12-2011 22:01, Marco wrote:

On 2011-12-09 Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 9-12-2011 20:41, Marco wrote:

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One feature request: Could it be make configurable to either insert a \times or a \cdot?

is already possible

How?

http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/units-mkiv.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------