Should we call it a bug?

Werner_E — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:43:56 GMT

IMHO the first line should evaluate OK.

Reason for Prime failing is because it automatically assigns the 0 an "appropriate" unit even though Prime is not using SUC (static unit check). As a result, Prime naturally refuses to add 0 kg and the unitless 1.

A unitless value different from 0 works OK as can be seen in the second line.

Workaround (which should not be necessary) is using "zero" instead of "0".

There is no problem if the vector contains values of different dimensions

or even

Re: Should we call it a bug?

StuartBruff — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:45:00 GMT

Das, was wir ein Computerfehler nennen, würde bei jedem anderen Namen genauso süß duften (Shakespeare's a busy boy, today).

Yes, it's a bug. Looks similar to the NaN bug.

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Mathcad/Vectorizing-SIUnitsOf-over-array-containing-NaN/m-p/981787#M214833

Which was supposed to have been fixed, I believe?

Stuart

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