go-units documentation
go-units is planned. It is the organisation the
go-scikit parity plan
names for what MATLAB’s symunit and physconst and Mathematica’s Quantity
offer. No library exists, no code is written and nothing is released: these
pages say what the organisation will cover, in which wave, and what each part
will be validated against.
Scope
Quantities with exact dimensions, conversion between units (including offset units such as degC and degF), dimensional analysis, and the CODATA physical constants. Dates and time scales are out of scope: they belong to go-datetime. None of the existing Go unit packages is a dimensional-analysis engine (they are typed floats, byte-size parsers or conversion tables), so none is a dependency.
Plan
| Item in the plan | What | Wave |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | go-units, together with go-sciio (size S for go-units) | 2 |
| 21 | user-defined unit systems: EMU, ESU and atomic units (size S) | 4 |
The plan is PLAN.md; where each item stands is STATUS.md. The facts behind the scope, the references and the validation measures are in the roadmap’s bibliography.
The planned packages
The names are provisional.
| Package | Status | What it will provide |
|---|---|---|
| units | planned (wave 2) | dimension vectors, quantities, conversion, the UDUNITS grammar, dimensional analysis |
| constants | planned (wave 2) | the CODATA 2022 recommended values |
Status
Nothing is released, so there is nothing to install. When a package is released its page becomes the package’s own documentation, and this site’s version label follows the newest release, as in the other go-scikit organisations.
Created on by tannevaled
Modified on by tannevaled