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Evaluation commands #29

Closed Mercerenies closed 1 month ago

Mercerenies commented 5 months ago

[x] = to evaluate and substitute known variables (b1258de)
[x] N to evaluate and substitute known variables, even those that we don't know the exact value for (like pi and e) (bc33d1b)
[x] u s to simplify unit-based expressions (see #25)

Mercerenies commented 5 months ago

N should also make any rational quantities inexact.

Mercerenies commented 1 month ago

I'm going to implement N to evaluate rational quantities in v1.0. For v1.0, we'll leave the handling of symbolic constants like pi alone (that is, = simplifies them numerically), and we'll implement a larger-scale symbolic-manipulation toolkit in a future version. At that time, we'll probably change = to stop evaluating known constants (at least in symbolic mode) and use N to do so.

See #139 for a starting follow-on ticket that's out of scope for v1.0

Mercerenies commented 1 month ago

bc33d1b implements the N command (at least, the MVP for v1.0) and closes this issue.