Re: Suggestion

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rick,
> >
> > On Friday, 2016-01-08 19:52:49 -0500, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> >
> > > The category is called *"Metric."*
> > >
> > > When conveying fractional values, such that 1.2345E-08 (which is
> > > 0.000,000,012,345), it would do so in a metric-relative way using the
> > > standard milli (10^-3), micro (10^-6), nano (10^-9), pico (10^-12), and
> > so
> > > on...
> > >
> > > In the example, the *Metric* display would cause the value to show up
> > > as "*12,345
> > > pu*" (pico-units) if the thousands separator was used.
> >
> > Could you give some examples what you think how the format code actually
> > should look like?
> Eike, I never heard back from you after my reply.
>
> The format would be "Metric" with "Metric:seconds" given for a specific
> override for the units name.  And there are a few other options that I
> would like to append including a bias that the data may already be in, such
> as kilo-units ("Metric[:seconds][:bias=kilo]") and an override base to use,
> such as always displaying in milli-units
> ("Metric[:seconds][:bias=kilo][affix:milli]").

Please forgive my dyslexia.  It should be:
Metric[:seconds][:bias=kilo][:affix=milli]

Each of the [] portions are optional, and would actually appear in a form
like this:

Metric:seconds:bias=kilo:affix=milli

This would mean units will be:  teraseconds, gigaseconds, megaseconds,
kiloseconds, seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds, picoseconds
And the units in each cell are already sitting in kilosecond values.
And we are to base everything in milliseconds, meaning a value of 1.0 in
the cell, is biased to be actually 1 kilosecond, which is 1,000 seconds,
which is then translated to milliseconds, to reveal the display value of
one million milliseconds, as in:

1 kilosecond = 1,000 seconds = 1,000,000 milliseconds

Make sense/


> In this way the base is always there:  "Metric"
> Based on options, additional values are tagged on with colons:
> :unitName
> :bias=[tera,giga,mega,kilo,milli,micro,nano,pico]
> :affix=[tera,giga,mega,kilo,milli,micro,nano,pico]
>
> Is this acceptable?  Am I ready to begin coding? :-)
>
>
> > > There would be an
> > > option to override the default "u" character in use, changing it into
> > > something that may have significance for the cell, such as "s" or
> > "seconds"
> > > for seconds, "m" or "meters" for meters, and so on.
> >
> > So, the unit itself would be a cell property, which replaces the generic
> > "u"?
> >
> > That sounds related to the feature branch Markus already mentioned.
> >
> > > An ability to lock in a working range would also exist, such as *"show
> > > everything in nano-units"* so that everything is adjusted to that
> > base.  In
> > > such a case, the above example above would present as "*12.345 nu*"
> > instead
> > > of in its default *pu*.
> >
> > Where/how should that "lock-in" happen? By applying a different number
> > format to that range?
> >
> >
> > One main problem with inventing new format code features is, that they
> > don't survive an Excel roundtrip unless Excel has the same feature.
> > I guess it doesn't.
> >
> >   Eike
> >
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