Well, count me as a not terribly passionate -1. I think the idea that coding around the habits of certain subsets of users of yt has gotten us into trouble in the past, and I'm wary of doing it here. While this is certainly not a huge deal, I personally prefer that we be stricter about units standards. However, I totally understand that milliparsecs is not used by anyone. And of course, parsecs are not SI to begin with, so I suppose from a PURELY logical standpoint, we aren't necessarily bound by their prefix conventions. 

j


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman@gmail.com> wrote:
-0 

I'd rather we all just use Mpc, but I'll go along with it.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is the change:


We'll definitely be leaving 'm' -> 'milli' alone.  FWIW, we already do this by mapping 'mpc' -> 'Mpc' in plot labels.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, then I will put my anal personality (which would never agree to such a thing) aside and say I'm cool with this.


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Britton,

This would be in the units refactor of yt-3.0, and would *only* apply
to parsecs.  This would be the exclusive special case of m[some unit]
meaning Mega.

-Matt

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Where exactly is this?  Is this in yt-3.0, and if so, would this apply to
> all uses of m as milli?  Is that is so, then my concern is for when yt
> becomes more used by other domains that actually do have a valid use for
> milli.
>
> Britton
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Nathan and I are working on some unit things.  One that came up is
>> that it looked like the conversion to mpc was wrong.
>>
>> Turns out, it's not.  But what it's set up as is "mpc" for
>> "milliparsecs" and "Mpc" for "Megaparsecs."  We'd like to get rid of
>> any usage of milliparsecs, since I think the number of people who want
>> to use that (globally) are probably between 0 and 0, and just make Mpc
>> and mpc the same thing.
>>
>> If anybody objects, write back.  Silence will be taken as tacit agreement!
>>
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