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module Quantify
  module Unit
    class NonSI < Base

      # Class representing SI units. This inherits from Unit::Base

      # Additional initialize. Some NonSI units - temperature units, celsius and
      # farenheit - contain scaling factors in addition to multiplicative factors.
      # These are required in order to perform conversion, e.g. kelvin => celsius
      # and therefore become and additional attribute to NonSI units
      #
      def initialize(options=nil)
        @scaling = 0.0
        if options.is_a? Hash and options[:scaling]
          @scaling = options.delete(:scaling).to_f
        end
        super(options)
      end

    end
  end
end

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quantify-1.0.5	lib/quantify/unit/non_si_unit.rb