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cosmic_quanta 4 days ago

There are Haskell packages for uncertainty (e.g. [0], based on automatic differentiation [1]). However, these packages don't support typed dimensions, because multiplication/division becomes more complex.

It is my goal to provide quantities with uncertainty AND typed dimensions one day.

[0]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/uncertain

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ad

jcgrillo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Very cool. Thanks for the links, I'm not very familiar with the Haskell ecosystem, I mostly work in Rust and Go these days. I'll definitely check them out.

ssivark 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is the kind of thing that would be pretty straight-forward in Julia, I imagine. Independent libraries for uncertainties and units could easily be remixed together if the unitful quantity accepts any number type, and the uncertainties just define a new number type. Multiple dispatch should generate consistent downstream behavior "for free".

ziotom78 4 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed:

    julia> using Unitful: m, s

    julia> using Measurements

    julia> Δx = (3.0 ± 0.1)m
    3.0 ± 0.1 m

    julia> t = (1.0 ± 0.2)s
    1.0 ± 0.2 s

    julia> v = Δx / t
    3.0 ± 0.61 m s^-1