9 Feb
2007
9 Feb
'07
1:12 p.m.
On 2/9/07, Andreas Harnack <ah.boost.01@justmail.de> wrote:
Hi Matthias,
I've been following the discussion about physical quantities for some times now and I'm wondering if someone has thought of representing base units by prime numbers?
How would you store the products? I don't really like the idea of unintuitive limits on the composition of base units (e.g. you can represent 2^31, but not 19^31) -- on the other handworking with arbitrarily-sized compile-time integers doesn't sound a lot less complicated than dealing with sorted lists, so maybe you have something different in mind? Regards, Michael