In the previous articles, we introduced the International System of Quantities, described how we can model and implement it in a programming language, and presented the issues of software that does not use such abstraction to implement a units library.
Some of the issues raised in Part 2 of our series were addressed in Part 3 already. This article will present how our ISQ model elegantly addresses the remaining problems.
Up until now, we have introduced the International System of Quantities and described how we can model its main aspects. This article will present how to implement those models in a programming language, and we will point out some of the first issues that stand in our way.
The physical units libraries on the market typically only focus on modeling one or more systems of units. However, as we have learned, this is not the only system kind to model. Another, and maybe even more important, is a system of quantities. The most important example here is the International System of Quantities (ISQ) defined by ISO/IEC 80000.
This article continues our series about the International System of Quantities. This time, we will learn about the main ideas behind the ISQ and describe how it can be modelled in a programming language.
This article is the next one in our series about the ISQ. After introducing the basic terms and systems, this article will talk about the issues we face when we base the quantities and units library on just units or dimensions.
This post starts a series of articles about the International System of Quantities (ISQ). In this series, we will describe: