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Re: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38270] miscellaneous package: units conve
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38270] miscellaneous package: units conversion from degC to K fails with units 1.0 |
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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:16:57 -0400 |
On 20 April 2013 18:43, Michael D. Godfrey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/20/2013 06:37 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
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>> Conversion between degrees F and C and K are nonlinear conversions because
>> 0
>> in one unit is not zero in another unit. See units(1)
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/quantal/en/man1/units.1.html.
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> Sorry, I thought y = ax + b was a linear transformation. I guess that units
> has a better definition.
No, it's an affine transformation. :-)
- Jordi G. H.