Re: Operationalize orthogonality

"U-gene" <grigoriev-e_at_yandex.ru> wrote in message news:1148987955.443290.54010_at_y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> But if this lab used right "WEIGHT" domain, that allows automatical
> convert from kilograms to pounds, to represent values and to define and
> create variables, which contains these values, this problem didn't
> arise at all.
>
> Europians, who use kilogram as default representation, add value what
> looks like "1". Americans, who use pounds as default representation,
> see this value as "2,2046". There is no problem here. The problems
> appear when you miss unit or when you forget about it.
>

Or when you forget that Americans use comma and point differently than Europeans, when writing numbers. Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 13:22:34 CEST