This
is the unity library, which is able to parse scientific unit
specifications using a variety of syntaxes.
This is version unity-1.0, 2014 May 23
The library is released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD licence.
The four syntaxes which the library (and VOUnits specification) refers to are:
The library includes a set of `known units', which draws heavily on the QUDT specification and models, in the sense that it incorporates a subset of the QUDT units, with a few astronomy-specific additions. Specifically it draws on QUDT v1.1, which was the current version at the time v1.0 of this library was released.
Further details:
https://purl.org/nxg/dist/unity
(please use this URI, rather than the one it redirects to, when citing
the library)Documentation:
doxygen
).See the release notes.