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1-Visitor
January 23, 2012
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Mathcad 15- How can I get custom units to work?

  • January 23, 2012
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I am new to mathcad. As I understand the instructions, custom units should work with in a worksheet. The following entries do not work.

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I will appreciate any help I can get.

Ron Marshall

Best answer by RichardJ

You have two typographical problems. First, immediately in front of the 10 is a space. I don't know how you got that, but it means Mathcad thinks <space>10 is a variable. The second one is really bizarre. I can't even figure out how to create it. Select the kg with the insertion point to the right. then delete the kg by backspacing, and finally delete the multiplication operator. You will see that the entire expression is surrounded by parentheses: (amu:=1.66053886*10^27). So somehow it's grouped the LHS and the RHS. I don't know how to do that even if I wanted to . It must be the result of some sequence of edits you did, probably involving the "1" that was originally on the LHS.

The solution is just to delete the entire expression and retype it.

11 replies

1-Visitor
January 23, 2012

Try this.

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Mike

19-Tanzanite
January 23, 2012

As Mike syas, get rid of the 1 on the LHS of the assignment. That is not allowed.

rmarshall1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 23, 2012

Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried several variations. I retried removing the 1, but Mathcad will not recognize amu as a unit so far.

1-Visitor
January 23, 2012

It will, look at my example posted above. That was created in M15.

Mike

24-Ruby IV
January 24, 2012

The amu is a built-in unit (constant) in Mathcad Prime:

amu.png