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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2022 Meeting


Section: Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics


Title:
dimensional-aware scalar and vectorial operations in c++


Authors:
Eduard George Stan(1,2), Michele Renda(1), Călin Alexa(1)


Affiliation:
1)IFIN-HH, Particles Physics Department, Măgurele, Romania

2)University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Măgurele, Romania


E-mail
calin.alexa@nipne.ro


Keywords:
units of measurement C++ Vectors


Abstract:
We review the problem of a dimensional check as a language feature for most of the high-level programming languages and the possible solutions of this issue. We introduce our C++ library designed to make 2D and 3D vectorial operations using units of measurement. Eventually, we present our plans for future improvements of the current implementation


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Acknowledgement:
This study was supported by PN19060104 and ATLAS CERN-RO grants.