quantity - Package for Unit-safe Computations

This package provides classes and functions for unit-safe computations with quantities (including money).

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is a Quantity?
    • 1.1.1. “Systems of Measure”
  • 1.2. Main Package Contents
    • 1.2.1. The Basics: Quantity and Unit
    • 1.2.2. Utility Functions and Classes
    • 1.2.3. Commonly Used Quantities
    • 1.2.4. A Special Quantity: Money
• 2. Quantity
  • 2.1. Usage
    • 2.1.1. Defining a quantity class
    • 2.1.2. Instantiating quantities
    • 2.1.3. Converting between units
    • 2.1.4. Unit-safe computations
    • 2.1.5. Rounding
    • 2.1.6. Apportioning
    • 2.1.7. Formatting as string
  • 2.2. Classes
  • 2.3. Functions
  • 2.4. Exceptions
• 3. Predefined Quantities
  • 3.1. Length
  • 3.2. Mass
  • 3.3. Duration
  • 3.4. Area
  • 3.5. Volume
  • 3.6. Velocity
  • 3.7. Acceleration
  • 3.8. Force
  • 3.9. Energy
  • 3.10. Power
  • 3.11. DataVolume
  • 3.12. DataThroughput
  • 3.13. Temperature
• 4. Money
  • 4.1. Usage
    • 4.1.1. Registering a currency
    • 4.1.2. Instantiating a money amount
    • 4.1.3. Computing with money amounts
    • 4.1.4. Converting between different currencies
    • 4.1.5. Combining Money with other quantities
  • 4.2. Classes
  • 4.3. Functions

Index