[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38270] miscellaneous package: units conversion from degC to K fails with units 1.0

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #38270 (project octave):

Michael Godfrey replied via email, reposting to tracker:

>> full definition of nonlinear unit conversions, so even when the syntax
error
>> is fixed the conversion between degC and degK or degF will not be correct.
> What?


Conversion between degrees F and C and K are nonlinear conversions because 0
in one unit is not zero in another unit. See units(1)
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/quantal/en/man1/units.1.html.

The Octave units function does not handle nonlinear conversions correctly, but
that is a separate bug. This bug is about Octave throwing an error because it
can't parse the output of different versions of the units program.

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