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The problem you describe was quite often moaned about here in the forum. Auto-labeling in Prime is known to be faulty, especially when used with symbolic calculations.
It often helps (and it does in your case, too - at least it did for me in Prime 9) if you turn on "Units/Constants in Symbolics" in the calculation options:
Now you don't have to resort to copy & paste but rather can assign the result of the symbolic "solve" to a variable:
But even though the aforementioned option is turned on, the symbolic is not unit aware. It does not know anything about units. It does not know that kW = 10^3 W, etc. and so it can't simplify the result to coulomb. The symbolics treats kW, C and W as three different unknown variables.
A word of caution about the usage of "float"! This does not only affect the displayed result but affects the accuracy of the whole calculation. It must be used therefor with great care!
A better option seems to me to use numeric methods rather than symbolic ones when you are just looking for a numeric result - especially if you use units. You may either use a solve block with "find" (looks ugly) or the "root" function.
The root function needs that you either provide a guess value
or a range for the variable looked for
If you need to round down or up the result you can additionally use the functions round, ceil, trunc or floor - whatever is appropriate.
Hop this helps.
EDIT: If you meant °C (degree celsius) instead of C (coulomb) as ttokoro suspects, than you have to pick that from the units drop down, you can't simply type it.
The problem you describe was quite often moaned about here in the forum. Auto-labeling in Prime is known to be faulty, especially when used with symbolic calculations.
It often helps (and it does in your case, too - at least it did for me in Prime 9) if you turn on "Units/Constants in Symbolics" in the calculation options:
Now you don't have to resort to copy & paste but rather can assign the result of the symbolic "solve" to a variable:
But even though the aforementioned option is turned on, the symbolic is not unit aware. It does not know anything about units. It does not know that kW = 10^3 W, etc. and so it can't simplify the result to coulomb. The symbolics treats kW, C and W as three different unknown variables.
A word of caution about the usage of "float"! This does not only affect the displayed result but affects the accuracy of the whole calculation. It must be used therefor with great care!
A better option seems to me to use numeric methods rather than symbolic ones when you are just looking for a numeric result - especially if you use units. You may either use a solve block with "find" (looks ugly) or the "root" function.
The root function needs that you either provide a guess value
or a range for the variable looked for
If you need to round down or up the result you can additionally use the functions round, ceil, trunc or floor - whatever is appropriate.
Hop this helps.
EDIT: If you meant °C (degree celsius) instead of C (coulomb) as ttokoro suspects, than you have to pick that from the units drop down, you can't simply type it.
