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

[lucasm at ohiou.edu]

Wow - I really that I used to be able to get away with it.

Has anyone out there been able to (in a previous version) just put any 
string in unit="  " and have it at least check against that string?

Mark

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:

>
> 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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