Plus42 Equations, Preview Release

[rprosperi]

(12-08-2021 10:35 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  I noticed the 48G doesn't seem to care about the order of units in compound units; it has no preference for, say, N*m over m*N.

I thought, in the unit management logic in Plus42, I could do a bit better, and always put compound units in standard order. The problem: what is the standard order? Is there a reference for this?

I don't believe there is an absolute standard, at least for many compound units, as it is often driven by the Engineering or Science discipline that you are in, for example torque is expressed (in US) as often in Foot-pounds as it is in Pound-feet. For other cases, there may be some guidelines, but I suspect HP would have checked that and concluded that not forcing a standard format would flexibly let users create and use them in a format they are accustomed to.