Working with units

[cyrille de brébisson]

Hello,

>> add 1 to 3_m
This hits into one of the major issue between math and computer science, human language and computers.
Both math and human language are littered with non explicit-ed, contextually shared assumptions/understanding and loosely defined "items" (sometimes, even symbols/words like plus or minus have different meanings than the basic addition/subtraction ones)
In the (rare) cases where there is a possible misunderstanding, then we see human using convoluted sentences to explicit their words...
Unfortunately, the calculator does not have enough IA to deduce these "non explicit-ed, contextually shared assumptions/understanding" which would allow it to deduce what is meant by a user. It therefore forces you, the user, to explicitly state them, at the cost of extra typing time...
One of the best example is users entering in the graphing app:
F1(X)=sin(X)
F2(X)=dF1(X)/dX
and not understanding why it does not work...


>> "If God had wanted us to use the Metric system, Jesus would've had 10 apostles"
Now, this is such a quintessentially American statement that I had to clean all the coffee from my screen after reading it!

Cyrille