Re: List of constants.

[Paul Kienzle]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:

> 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.

You don't want to add a new function for every constant.

How about having a function which can return the desired
constant, or perhaps return a static structure containing
all constants.

Also, you might want to return a vector of exponents on
the seven basic SI units rather than a string.  With it you
can do things such as scale between cgs and mks.

- Paul