Quantities with similar units

[nourani]

Some of the Derived units have either no Base units or have the same units. These include:

angle (radian) = m/m
solid angle (steradian) = m2/m2
Luminous Flux (lumen) = cd; same as Luminous
Radioactivity (becquerel) = s-1; same as Frequency

The way we currently implement the template class we cannot differentiate between m, m/m, m2/m2 etc

Don't know what is the best way to deal with this. Maybe we need to include another variable to be used to keep track of these. I was thinking of using a "string literal" but didn't figure out how to implement this.

[crayzeewulf]

It might be worth learning from the way Boost.Units handles this.

[nourani]

Hhhmm I don't know if expanding the set of base dimensions is the "correct" way of doing this, although it is a solution. Isn't there really a standard for this? Need to look into this again

[crayzeewulf]

I agree that it does not seem like a very elegant solution but I have not come across any good way of doing this either (especially if we want to minimize the runtime overhead of using this class).