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What is the difference between this and faker.science.unit?

@ST-DDT
In science, unit is used to mean possessed by a physical quantity. notations is used to mean code of physical unit.
For example, The formula of pressure is P = F / S. The P means pressure, F means force and S means square. Both they are notations instead of units.
Anyway, the unit of F is Newton, P is Pascal, S can use meter, centmeter, kilometer and etc.

i would call things like force, pressure, area "quantities" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_quantity - the notation is just the symbol.

export interface Notation {
  /**
   * The long version of the notations (e.g. `work`).
   */
  name: string;
  /**
   * The short version/abbreviation of the notations (e.g. `w`)
   */
  symbol: string;
}

However, one notation can refer to more than one meaning.( e.g. uppercase C can refer capacitance, heat capacity and constant of integration )
I don't think this interface is good. Could you tell me how I modify it?😊

@matthewmayer

I would wait for more upvotes. One of the reason to wait for 10+ upvotes is to get a variety of opinions over what use cases people might need this for. That informs making sensible naming decisions.

I don't use the science module in any of my projects, but if we can find 10 people who do over a few months, they'd have a much better idea of how to structure the api.

i would call things like force, pressure, area "quantities" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_quantity - the notation is just the symbol.

I agree with this--- "notation" is too similar to "unit", so if we implement it, we should name this method "quantity".