As a scientist who would actually use this for research if it worked well, I have some thoughts. The thing that would make me use this instead of my personally maintained list of constants is if there were a command to update the constants automagically from the NIST database. You should also think very carefully about how the uncertainty works as scientists will want to take that uncertainty and propagate it using gaussian error propagation through calculations. It might be best to have constants as a list with the first value being the mean and the second the uncertainty. A structure or object might work even better. The trick would be to default to the mean value when doing calculations.
I think this would be useful. Jonathan On Friday, March 16, 2012 11:03:55 PM UTC-5, Eviatar wrote: > > Thank you, that's what I thought. I'll do it outside of GSoC anyway though. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
