[LON-CAPA-admin] Non-standard units in 2.0.1
Gerd Kortemeyer
korte at lite.msu.edu
Sat Sep 17 12:12:36 EDT 2005
On Sep 16, 2005, at 11:24 PM, lucasm at ohiou.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want a problem to have units of rpm. I enter units of rpm and get
> the
> following error message in construction space:
>
>
> ERROR:Computer's answer is incorrect ("9.24 rpm"). It is likely
> that the tolerance range [8.778, 9.702] or significant figures [2,
> 5] need to be adjusted
>
> If instead I use m/s^2 it's happy.
>
> If I use ergs, it's not happy.
>
> (1) is this a bug or a new feature? (I thought we used to be able
> to enter
> untabulated units before)
It's one of LON-CAPA's oldest bugs: http://bugs.lon-capa.org/
show_bug.cgi?id=53
As far as I know, we have never supported non-standard units.
- Gerd.
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