[racket] Numbers with dimensions

So does this mean you think the representation I took is bad for some
reason? If so why?


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

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> 1. I would hope that some generics might help here.
> 2. I see a need for struct mixins here because meter isn't a refinement
> per se but some 'attribute'. Then you could mixin several different units
> and I may have both m and m-1.
>
> Data representation not fully thought thru. -- Matthias
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> On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Laurent wrote:
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> How would you represents quantities like 2 kg.m^2/s^-2 with that?
> And how would you convert from mi/h to m/s?
>
> Anyway, I've started adding in some converters:
> https://github.com/Metaxal/measures/blob/master/converters.rkt
>
> Some more to come, but I may not be able to work on it for very long for
> now.
>
> Laurent
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> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:
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>> Wouldn't we want something like this:
>>
>> #lang racket
>>
>> (module+ test (require rackunit))
>>
>> (struct distance (value) #:transparent) ;; this should be abstract
>> (struct yard distance () #:transparent)
>> (struct meter distance () #:transparent)
>>
>> ;; distance distance -> distance
>>
>> (module+ test
>>   (check-equal? (d+ (yard 1) (yard 2)) (yard 3))
>>   (check-equal? (d+ (yard 1) (meter 2)) (meter (+ .9 2)))
>>   (check-equal? (d+ (meter 1.8) (yard 1)) (yard (+ 2.0 1)))
>>   (check-equal? (d+ (meter 2) (meter 1)) (meter 3)))
>>
>> (define (d+ d1 d2)
>>   (match (list d1 d2)
>>     [(list (struct yard (value)) (struct yard (value2))) (yard (+ value
>> value2))]
>>     [(list (struct yard (value)) (struct meter (value2))) (meter (+
>> (yard->meter value) value2))]
>>     [(list (struct meter (value2)) (struct yard (value))) (yard (+
>> (meter->yard value2) value))]
>>     [(list (struct meter (value)) (struct meter (value2))) (meter (+
>> value value2))]))
>>
>> ;; distance distance-constructor -> distance
>>
>> (module+ test
>>   (check-equal? (conversion (yard 3) meter) (meter (* 3 .9))))
>>
>> (define (conversion x d)
>>   (match x
>>     [(struct yard (y)) (if (eq? yard d) x (meter (yard->meter y)))]
>>     [(struct meter (y)) (if (eq? yard d) (yard (meter->yard y)) x)]))
>>
>>
>> ;; auxiliaries
>> (define (yard->meter v) (* .9 v))
>> (define (meter->yard v) (/ v .9))
>>
>> -- Matthias
>>
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>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Laurent wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so I just hacked together a small lib for handling numbers with unit
>> symbols and exponents:
>>
>> Quick example:
>> > (measure->value
>>    (m* '(18 s)
>>        '(1600 km (h -1))
>>        '(1000 m (km -1))
>>        '(1/3600 h (s -1))))
>> '(8000 m)
>>
>> You can get it with:
>> $ raco pkg install measures
>> or from the File menu in DrRacket, if you have a recent version of Racket
>> (strictly > 5.3.6).
>>
>> Examples and details here:
>> https://github.com/Metaxal/measures
>>
>> HTH,
>> Laurent
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Alvin Schatte <AlvinSchatte at skytex.net>wrote:
>>
>>>   Is there a library or package that combines numbers and their
>>> operations with dimensions that may be associated with them?
>>> Alvin Schatte
>>>
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