I don't think you specified eg. P:=100*lbf. If you had, you would have gotten the right result, maybe in Joules, but correct nonetheless. As far as the "L" is concerned, it is a Mathcad predefined unit and stands for "liter" - so don't use it as a variable name.
Someone apparently failed to point out to you that you CANNOT and MUST NOT use built-in unit names as variable names. L is a Mathcad symbol for liter; note, however, this is a non-standard usage, since liter is not a proper name, so its symbol must be lower case. Only units that are named after people, like the kelvin, has a capitalized K for its symbol.
You should always check to see if the symbol you are using is already taken. The first time you type L=, it would have converted to L:= had L not been previously defined. L= should result in L=1*L because its a built-in unit
I don't know how that works out in Mathcad 14 and beyond. I only have 13, but there the "L" clearly is otherwise occupied and defines "liter". If you want lower case, you'll have to use just that "liter".
You can, at your own risk simply force the re-definition of L to be something else. I don't actually see where you defined L in your sheet at all, so it would have complained about L being undefined anyway.
IRStuff,
The "L" for liter makes practical sense even if it doesn't make pure SI sense. The symbol "l" looks too much like the symbol "1" (in fact in old typewriters the same striker came up with either one or ell). Had MathCad followed the SI convention the confusion would have legion.
The practical issues don't make it any less annoying. I don't think this issue is restricted to "old typewriters," though; the input dialog box here uses a Courier-equivalent font, and only in the preview or final version does it switch to a san-serif font that makes them distinguishable. Almost every book-form document we create at work uses "New" Times Roman, where the two are only barely distinguishable; the ell is every so slightly taller with an ever so slightly shorter serif.
The bigger issue, of course, is that every year or so, someone new to Mathcad will do something similar to the OP and wonder why the units aren't working. I wonder if this is why Mathcad isn't used as much as it could be, since the units handling is a major selling point for me.
I can nearly explain the liter symbol, I see a lot more people defining their input mass as m:45*kg. Absolutely nothing works from that point on. You ask for a length and get a mass. That is why you see long-time MathCad users always using the dot (as in m.pipe to make it appear like mpipe) to make sure that no variable redefines a built in unit.
yes, m:=something else is definitely a killer. Unfortunately, Mathsoft would do similar sorts of things in their example sheets, which would wreak havoc if the examples sheets were incorporated into another sheet that depended on an unsullied built-in unit. I did just that this afternoon, and it took a few minutes to figure it out and correct the problem.
The (optional) use of the upper-case "L" for litre (or "liter" if you're American - but that's a different topic!) has in fact been a part of the SI standard definition since 1979, precisely because of the typography issue.
The litre, and the symbol lower-case l, were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 (PV, 1879, 41). The alternative symbol, capital L, was adopted by the 16th CGPM (1979, Resolution 6; CR, 101 and Metrologia, 1980, 16, 56-57) in order to avoid the risk of confusion between the letter l (el) and the numeral 1 (one). Ref: Note (f) to Table 6 "Non-SI units accepted for use with the International System of Units" in "The International System of Units (SI)", 8th edition 2006, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8...
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RE: Basic units output in mathcad
RE: Basic units output in mathcad
You should always check to see if the symbol you are using is already taken. The first time you type L=, it would have converted to L:= had L not been previously defined. L= should result in L=1*L because its a built-in unit
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The "L" for liter makes practical sense even if it doesn't make pure SI sense. The symbol "l" looks too much like the symbol "1" (in fact in old typewriters the same striker came up with either one or ell). Had MathCad followed the SI convention the confusion would have legion.
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RE: Basic units output in mathcad
The bigger issue, of course, is that every year or so, someone new to Mathcad will do something similar to the OP and wonder why the units aren't working. I wonder if this is why Mathcad isn't used as much as it could be, since the units handling is a major selling point for me.
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RE: Basic units output in mathcad
The (optional) use of the upper-case "L" for litre (or "liter" if you're American - but that's a different topic!) has in fact been a part of the SI standard definition since 1979, precisely because of the typography issue.
The litre, and the symbol lower-case l, were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 (PV, 1879, 41). The alternative symbol, capital L, was adopted by the 16th CGPM (1979, Resolution 6; CR, 101 and Metrologia, 1980, 16, 56-57) in order to avoid the risk of confusion between the letter l (el) and the numeral 1 (one).
Ref: Note (f) to Table 6 "Non-SI units accepted for use with the International System of Units" in "The International System of Units (SI)", 8th edition 2006, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8...
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre#Symbol
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/outside.html
http://julianh72.blogspot.com