[LON-CAPA-admin] Non-standard units in 2.0.1

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

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.