Re: 23.0.50; calc: units conversion changes value

[Leo]

On 2007-10-23 19:29 +0100, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> In Emacs Calc, when I try to convert between incompatible units,
> Calc refuses to convert, which is totally correct behaviour.
> However, in some cases it changes the value of the quantity, which
> isn't in my opinion:
>
> Current value on stack: "1".  Then "calc-convert-units", Old units:
> 1, new units: cm^2.  The new value on the stack is "100" but I
> expect "1". 

I can reproduce this on Emacs 2007-10-10.

> This is problematic when you mis-typed the new unit and try it again
> with the correct one.  Then you get indeed the correct target unit but
> (if metric prefixes and at least ^2 is involved) with the wrong value.
>
> Tschö,
> Torsten.

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