Re: [office-formula] Straw poll - slug (and lightyear)

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 2010-04-07 15:53:41 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> If we say a light-year is the "distance light travels in a vacuum in 1
> Julian Year, which is 365.25 days" then this may be very correct but
> also very useless. Implementors will still need to decide what that
> value really is (or at least which value to use).
> 
> On the other hand if we have exact conversion factors in the OpenFormula
> standard to convert all those distance units into meters, then the
> conversion between any two distance units becomes obvious. 

+1

Let's state the conversion factor, and additionally have that
explanation.

  Eike

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