[h5md-user] Units Module Question

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hart, David Blaine writes:

 > I want to convert “Kcal mol-1 Å-1” into “J mol-1 m-1”, which leads me to 
 > want to
 > use the unit string “4.184 10+10 J mol-1 m-1”. But I’m not sure that’s 
 > valid. But
 > is seems weird that it would be invalid since there are so many numeric 
 > conversion
 > factors that are multiplied by a factor of ten, like “1.602e-19 C” written as
 > “1.602 10-19 C”.
 > 
 > This isn’t a big deal, since the SI prefixes can usually make it so that the
 > decimal only has to be shifted one or two places in the numeric factor, but I
 > thought I’d mention it.

How about “4.184e10 J mol-1 m-1” ?

Konrad
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