duffee / Astro-Constants

This Perl module provides physical constants usefull for astronomy in MKS and CGS systems
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verify constant values #8

Closed duffee closed 4 years ago

duffee commented 8 years ago

write a tool that checks the value of constants from NIST using hypermedia concepts and RESTful interfaces. consider building an API for others to use.

http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/CCValue?c

duffee commented 8 years ago

checked values from NIST and NASA by hand. Usually some change in the last 2 sig figs

duffee commented 8 years ago

Add links to NIST pages in the tag. Tool should parse xml file, find urls and check against MKS value. Consider CSS selectors to find the value on the page.

duffee commented 4 years ago

pages do not have CSS selectors, so some page scraping with HTML::Parser was thrown together