|    An example based on
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|    'Enhancing Data Interoperability with Ontologies, Canonical Forms, and Include Files'
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|              by Roger L. Costello     costello@mitre.org       August 10, 2003
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|             ( http://www.xfront.com/interoperability/CanonicalForms.html )



some-agent measures some-quantity in some-units
not : the canonical measure of that-quantity is those-units
one unit of that-quantity measured in those-units converts to a canonical some-number some-standard-units
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that-agent sending one unit of that-quantity in those-units should first convert it to that-number those-standard-units


this-agent measures this-quantity in these-units
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Agent A             length           kilometers
Agent A             time             seconds
Agent A             speed            kps
Agent B             length           miles
Agent B             time             hours
Agent B             speed            mph


one unit of some-quantity measured in some-units converts to a canonical some-number some-standard-units
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the canonical measure of that-quantity is those-standard-units


one unit of this-quantity measured in these-units converts to a canonical this-number these-standard-units
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             length                   miles                               1.609344      kilometers
             length                   meters                              0.001         kilometers
             time                     minutes                             60            seconds
             time                     hours                               3600          seconds


one unit of length measured in miles converts to a canonical some-number1 kilometers
one unit of time measured in hours converts to a canonical some-number2 seconds
that-number1 / that-number2 = some-quotient
that-quotient rounded to 5 place(s) after the decimal point is some-number
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one unit of speed measured in mph converts to a canonical that-number kps