Re: supplementary S.I. units

[Derek Chirnside <d.chirnside@phys.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:36:40 -0400 (EDT) "Donald E. Simanek"
> <dsimanek@eagle.lhup.edu> writes:
> > To students, I'll usually say, "To write 12 = 1 is surely absurd.
>
> I seem to recall that such statements are used in writing computer
> programs in "BASIC"
Close, but not quite.
I think '=' means assign what is on the left what is on the right.
eg
X=X+2 means take X and assign to ti the value X+2
12 = 1 would generate an error.

Derek

> Herb

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