A Compact Representation of Units

Hamilton, Bruce

HP Development Company

关键词: units of measurement;    dimensional analysis;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-96-61

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Existing standards for representing physical units (feet, ohms, etc.) are human-oriented, and unsatisfactory for machine representation. We present a form which can be represented compactly in a computer, accommodates unforeseen units, requires minimal agreement among the communicating parties, reveals the relationship among units, and deals with dimensionless and logarithmic units.