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?

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.socialOP
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      6 months ago

      I downloaded it and tried to run it, but it gets stuck in a loop and I don’t know how it could be fixed:

      error: max_recursion_depth exceeded
error: called from
    baseUnitSystem
    <unknown>

      it seems the problem is in the line

      coreUnits = buildCoreUnits(u.baseUnitSystem);

      in the file u.m, I think because u.baseUnitSystem tries to “call itself”. I don’t know what this should be supposed to do, and have no idea on how to possibly fix it :(