POEM 097: A Quantity Object to associate units with values. #197
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| ### Why adding a `units` argument to OptionsDictionary declare_options won't work. | ||
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| Some users have experiemented with passing tuples as options, where the second value contains units. | ||
| This isn't ideal since another unit may expect a tuple that doesn't involve units, leading to ambiguity. |
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since another option may expect?
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The Aviary team has decided to attack this problem from a different perspective. |
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This adds a lightweight Quantity object that associates some numerical value (any numerical value allowed by OpenMDAO...floats, or numpy arrays) with a unit.