Additional Dimensions

[mgberg]

Currently, dimension vectors cover all the fundamental physical dimensionalities. However, would it be useful in some future major release to consider the possibility of adding additional dimensions that aren't strictly fundamental?

For example, consider angular frequency and data rate. Both have the same dimension vector. That dimension vector is also shared with several other quantity kinds, including frequency. This is accurate from a physical perspective, but one could argue that frequency (inverse time) should not be the same dimensionality as angle per time or information per time and not making that distinction is a slight loss of information.

The qkdvNumerator and qkdvDenominator properties exist which can help with this a bit in the case of angle, but not necessarily with some of the other cases.

Note that Wolfram tracks these extra dimensions; see the pages for angular frequency and information rate for examples.