[yt-dev] Milliparsecs

[Britton Smith]

Ok, then I will put my anal personality (which would never agree to such a
thing) aside and say I'm cool with this.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Britton,
>
> This would be in the units refactor of yt-3.0, and would *only* apply
> to parsecs.  This would be the exclusive special case of m[some unit]
> meaning Mega.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Where exactly is this?  Is this in yt-3.0, and if so, would this apply to
> > all uses of m as milli?  Is that is so, then my concern is for when yt
> > becomes more used by other domains that actually do have a valid use for
> > milli.
> >
> > Britton
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Nathan and I are working on some unit things.  One that came up is
> >> that it looked like the conversion to mpc was wrong.
> >>
> >> Turns out, it's not.  But what it's set up as is "mpc" for
> >> "milliparsecs" and "Mpc" for "Megaparsecs."  We'd like to get rid of
> >> any usage of milliparsecs, since I think the number of people who want
> >> to use that (globally) are probably between 0 and 0, and just make Mpc
> >> and mpc the same thing.
> >>
> >> If anybody objects, write back.  Silence will be taken as tacit
> agreement!
> >>
> >> -Matt
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