Is it possible to do calculations with GNU Octave using measuring units? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 7 months ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Hello! In qalc I can do calculations using measuring units like this:

> 5 W * 3 s

  (5 watts) × (3 seconds) = 15 J

I'd like to be able to do something similar also in GNU Octave. I think the symbolic library could be a place to look at, but I found nothing "already done". Do any of you know of a way to achieve this functionality?

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[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

I don't think symbolic will solve your problem at all

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

With symbolic variables J, s and W, the Ws won't be converted to J automatically.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 7 months ago

automatically no, but perhaps there's a way to replace it. If there's a way to check if a variable is "divisible by another symbolic one" then it would be not so hard to implement this behavior

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