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Re: [uom-ontology-std] Scale and other mathematical structure

To: "Barkmeyer, Edward J." <edward.barkmeyer@xxxxxxxx>, uom-ontology-std <uom-ontology-std@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Martin S. Weber" <martin.weber@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:03:53 -0400
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Ed Barkmeyer wrote:
 >> (...cutcut. You all could do that, too, btw. That really would be nice...)
> These are both true only after you assert that they must be abelian 
> groups.  Why would the Quantity Dimension  have to be a group?    (01)

Why would they not be? (dim, "*((dim, dim) -> dim)" form an abelian group by 
the BIPM definitions? Quantities are no abelian group, obviously, but their 
dimensions are. Or what is it I [and a whole bunch of CS guys] oversee here?    (02)

-Martin    (03)

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