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Subject: Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:15:59 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>The point of the example was to demonstrate descriptive names. For
>local variables I usually wouldn't bother with the units, but in
>general it's a good practice to help avoid crashing your orbiter into
>Mars.
>
	That was a fault in the external documentation... the code was
perfectly consistent... using ft/sec, slugs, etc. rather than metric. <G>

	The names internally would have had no effect if the documentation to
the users never mentioned the units in use.
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