POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Stupid question time : Re: Stupid question time Server Time
4 Sep 2024 01:15:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stupid question time  
From: Invisible
Date: 21 Jun 2010 08:27:21
Message: <4c1f5aa9$1@news.povray.org>
>> (It turns out we have a machine that takes measurements in microseimens,
>> but some software we use needs a value in milivolts. And while they are
>> completely different dimensions, if you knew the properties of the
>> machine, it's conceivable that a constant conversion factor actually
>> exists...)
> 
> For 
> conversion you need to make sure that the conversion should be linear, 
> it might not be.

Given what the machine does, it seems plausible that the conversion is 
perfectly linear.

A more important question is whether the conversion factor is *constant* 
or not...


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