[yt-dev] Milliparsecs

[Matthew Turk]

Well, okay, this does kind of make sense.  I am willing to entertain
changing it back, but if we do, we need to be consistent everywhere.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd rather we all just use Mpc, but I'll go along with it.
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> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Here is the change:
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>> https://bitbucket.org/ngoldbaum/yt/commits/2e6d536ffa1976e4699093c4bb3b3bc4ade3f9da
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>> We'll definitely be leaving 'm' -> 'milli' alone.  FWIW, we already do
>> this by mapping 'mpc' -> 'Mpc' in plot labels.
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>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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