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quanta.canon - Function

1.4.1 get canonical value of quantity
Description

canon gets the canonical value of a quantity

Arguments





Inputs

v

value to convert

allowed:

variant

Default:

Returns
record

Example

"""  
#  
print "\t----\t canon Ex 1 \t----"  
print qa.canon(’1Jy’)         # canonical value of a string  
#{’value’: 1e-26, ’unit’: ’kg.s-2’}  
print qa.canonical(qa.quantity(’1Jy’)) # canonical value of a unit  
#{’value’: 1e-26, ’unit’: ’kg.s-2’}  
#  
"""

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