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From: "John Shonder" <shonderja@NOSPAM.ornl.gov>
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Subject: Re: The arithmetic of units.
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:15:19 -0500
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Quentin Grady wrote in message
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>G'day G'day Folks,
>
> Is there a formal way of perfoming arithmetic with the units in
>sciences?


In engineering this is called "dimensional analysis". Here are a
few links:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/physics/bio/fin2www/sld001.htm
http://sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~ir118/lecture.4.1.html


J. Shonder