From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:32:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2bdb1lk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vbp5urc4.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011
dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
> Hello Org,
>
> for some engineering most often I need estimations with unit
> conversions, Emacs Calc is perfect for this.
>
> When it comes to reporting and documentation I'd like to do it with
> org-mode, of course. For numerical stuff and visualisation purposes I'm
> using already R and TikZ. But for unit conversions and symbolic maths
> I'm in a bind when trying to do this with free programs.
If you're on a linux of some sort, you probably have the "units" command
line program installed. That's sort of the mother of all unit
converters, as far as I'm concerned -- you could call out to it and
return the results. What do you think?
> - R :: Do you have experience with a units packages under the R-project?
> What I've seen so far is not so reassuring...
>
> - Maxima :: I think there is a nice and intuitive units package for
> maxima. But this would mean learning an additional tool and mentally
> switching between both within one document.
>
> - Calc :: I'd prefer to do it with Calc but the Babel interface is
> (yet?) restricted
>
> For example, I can define functions and do some unit conversions:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (defmath cvun(a b)
> (math-convert-units a b))
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : calcFunc-cvun
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = "5 mm"
> cvun( L1, m)
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : 5e-3 m
>
> But what is missing is to assign variables within a source block
>
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC calc :var L1 = "5 mm"
> L2 := cvun( L1, m)
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> Unfortunately this is not working. Do you have an idea how to
> implement this?
>
> - Are you using (better) alternatives?
>
> Thanks for your insights
>
> Dieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-03 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-03 6:54 Unit conversions and symbolic mathematics with Babel H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-09-03 7:19 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-09-03 7:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-09-03 13:18 ` Brett Viren
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