[CF-metadata] Is the "bits" unit CF-compliant?

From: Culverwell, Ian <ian.culverwell>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:00:09 +0100

 
Dear Steve,

Thanks for doing this.

Does

<singular>bit</singular>

mean that "bits" (plural) is not a valid unit? "Bits" was a valid unit
in the old udunits.dat:

bit P count # unit of information

And in fact "bits" is what we want. Can the plural form be adopted at
UDUNITS-2 please?

Regards,
Ian.

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[mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Emmerson
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Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Is the "bits" unit CF-compliant?
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Hi,
I've added (returned?) the unit "bit" to the UDUNITS-2 database. It'll
be in the next release.
For those of you who can't wait, add the following lines
        <unit>
            <def>1</def>
            <aliases>
                <name> <singular>bit</singular> </name>
            </aliases>
        </unit>
to the installed file "$prefix/share/udunits/udunits2-common.xml",
where "$prefix" is the pathname of the top-level installation-directory
for the UDUNITS-2 package. I recommend adding them immediately after the
definition for the unit "count".
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
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