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> This is automatically canonicalised and much easier to manipulate than a tree of operations.

As long as the vector is sorted by unit, yeah. With that caveat, it's the same idea.




It’s a positional system with the same basic measurement units always at the same index locations.


there are 7 si units, and you can represent all the powers you need in 8 bits, so you can pack every reasonable SI unit in 64 bits




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