kwikius wrote:
> On May 31, 10:20 am, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I mean, the step from run-time scaling to
>> compile-time is not that large.
>
> Yep Its a tiny step, but (though I say so myself) ... brilliant and
> renders the old technique redundant because its both faster and more
> accurate.
>
> SIUnits ( fermilab --> Walter Brown, hence Marc Patterno <--fermilab)
> has been around for many years and they didnt figure it out, their
> approach loses precision and is slow.
>
> Makes em look pretty stupid don't it... ?
>
> Of course when you explain the technique everybody says... well thats
> obvious..I could have thought of that...
>
> Difference is ... I Did think of that.
>
> Now it seesm there is a lot of other people running around trying to
> slyly imply that They thought of it.
It's actually an obvious step to do unit conversion at compile time. I
was working on it independently before I ran into its use in your
library and decided it was a waste to research a solution to a problem
that had been solved. The static_rational metafunction, which you admit
to using from somewhere else, was key to solving the problem. So you
were standing on others' shoulders as well.
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