Implementation Details

This section provides in-depth discussion about core implementation details of Au. If you want to understand how the library works, this is a good place to go. Here’s a rough guide.

• Applying Magnitudes. A conversion factor is a magnitude: a positive real number. The best way to apply it to a value of type T depends on what kind of number it is (integer, rational, and so on), the runtime performance, and whether we can get exact answers.

• Vector Space Representations. We’re not talking about position vectors or velocity vectors! There’s a different kind of vector at the heart of every units library. This is the core foundational concept on which we built Au’s implementation.