Hello there,
I was looking for some physical constant (Boltzmann Constant K),
lately, and thought if we had some inbuilt thing in Octave
(Octave-Forge) like the table from NIST, at
http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/Table/allascii.txt
it could be quite useful.
I wonder if anyone has thought about it, and has better ideas
to share.
ATM I have some crude scripts to generate cookie-cutter
scripts-functions that return the value of constants.
eg:
function [Val,Unit,Uncertanity]=speed_of_light_in_vacuum()
## speed of light in vacuum
## Val=299792458 Units=m s^-1 Uncertanity=0.0
## Autogenerated on Fri Feb 9 05:53:30 2007
## from NIST database at http://physics.nist.gov/constants
Val = 299792458;
Units = "m s^-1";
Uncertanity = 0.0;
endfunction
What do you think? BTW I hope its ok to reuse the file from NIST, as I
hear work public agencies are generally in public-domain. Anyway please
discuss the interface we can provide to Octave.
~ Muthiah
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