On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Norman Gray wrote:
> The business of units is separate: UCDs and UTYPEs are intended to
> indicate what physical quantity a column corresponds to, and not how
> it's represented. The units specification in VOTable or FITS would
> take care of that. You may think that these various aspects of the
> thing should be more tightly bound together, in which case David can
> tell you all about the IVOA Quantity.
Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
I've lost touch a bit (well, actually a lot) with Quantity. Is it actually
being used for anything?
I always had trouble convincing others that units is really no different
to any other bit of the meta data used to describe the system in which a
value is measured.
David
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