Units
Units
The Units
class extends AbstractSystemOfUnits
and provides a set of a set of static constants for the most common units defined by SI/BIPM, see Supported Units .
Metric Prefix
MetricPrefix
is provided for obtaining multiples or submultiples of system units. Method names mirror SI / Metric prefix names but are uppercase like it's common to constants in Java. MetricPrefix
is a "hybrid" enum, defining the constant factors as enumeration elements, but doing the actual conversion via matching static method names like CENTI
, MEGA
, etc.
Examples:
Unit instances returned by one of these methods provide type safety through unit parameterization (the and type parameters). This feature was discussed in the Unit Parametrization chapter of the specification.
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