One of the most powerful features of PTC Mathcad is its ability to attach units to

numbers. PTC Mathcad units will be one of your best friends as a scientist or

engineer. PTC Mathcad units will simplify your work, and they are one of the

best means you have of catching mistakes. You may remember the 1999 Mars

Climate Orbiter that ended in disaster by burning up in the atmosphere of

Mars. Why? Because engineers failed to convert English measures of rocket

thrust into metric measures. Using PTC Mathcad units will help prevent problems

like this from occurring. Once units are attached to values, PTC Mathcad understands

the unit dimensions and can display the units in any desired unit system. It

does this easily and automatically. You are not left wondering what units the

results represent. If you use units consistently, PTC Mathcad will alert you to

problems in your expressions. For example, if you expected the results to be in

lbf/ft2, but they are in lbf/ft, then something is missing from your expression or

from your input.