Title: Converting dimensionless quantities back to plain numbers is errorprone · Issue #247 · python-quantities/python-quantities · GitHub
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Description: If n is an effectively dimensionless quantity, for instance import quantities as pq n = 3 * pq.s * pq.kHz then one might reasonably want to convert n back to a simple number. To do so with error checking currently requires code along the...
Open Graph Description: If n is an effectively dimensionless quantity, for instance import quantities as pq n = 3 * pq.s * pq.kHz then one might reasonably want to convert n back to a simple number. To do so with error ch...
X Description: If n is an effectively dimensionless quantity, for instance import quantities as pq n = 3 * pq.s * pq.kHz then one might reasonably want to convert n back to a simple number. To do so with error ch...
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