Re: Operationalize orthogonality


"David Cressey" <dcressey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"U-gene" <grigoriev-e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But if this lab used right "WEIGHT" domain, that allows automatical
convert from kilograms to pounds, to represent values and to define and
create variables, which contains these values, this problem didn't
arise at all.

Europians, who use kilogram as default representation, add value what
looks like "1". Americans, who use pounds as default representation,
see this value as "2,2046". There is no problem here. The problems
appear when you miss unit or when you forget about it.


Or when you forget that Americans use comma and point differently than
Europeans, when writing numbers.

Or the translator of the strings in the properties box used the same word
for two distinct English words. :-)


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