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Re: Unit conversion database (was: multiple paramters in aggregate function)

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:31:17PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote:

> He he, all right then! There certainly are some things left to
> improve. One thing I noticed from the links you sent is that I
> ignored a few units used in medicine assuming they were deprecated
> ages ago - apparently not...

Ah, tell you what. There's *weird* unit usage in medicine !
There's units which omit parts of themselves (they are
assumed to be known to be implicit). There a units used for
measurments which are only equivalent to each other by some
weird empirical formula.

> Then again, encouraging their usage may not be the best thing to do,
> but who am I to decide what units people use eh?

No chance weaning doctors from mmHg, for example :-))

Karsten
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