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Fully naming abbreviation-named units

Open JohelEGP opened this issue 6 years ago • 5 comments

A few units, like dB and ppm, are named after their abbreviation, rather than their full name, like decibels and parts_per_million, respectively. I think these should be expanded as shown.

JohelEGP avatar Nov 06 '18 00:11 JohelEGP

By design. I originally had those units that way, but the abbreviations are so much more canonical than the actual names that it was confusing.

nholthaus avatar Nov 06 '18 01:11 nholthaus

another weird one is the unit henry. It has two plural forms, equally used, henrys and henries. I just picked one.

nholthaus avatar Nov 06 '18 01:11 nholthaus

Won't these get in the way of #196?

JohelEGP avatar Nov 06 '18 01:11 JohelEGP

hrm, yes. I'll expand them.

nholthaus avatar Nov 06 '18 15:11 nholthaus

I think this was solved with #256, sans non-linear scales, which we're intentionally leaving out.

nholthaus avatar Oct 10 '20 22:10 nholthaus