ignored prefixes

[hynkle]

It appears that when a unit has multiple prefixes, all but the last one are ignored. That is to say, the following all equal 3 cg:

Unit.new('3 mcg')   # this is how I originally discovered the issue,
                    # mistakenly thinking this would be micrograms
Unit.new('3 ccg')
Unit.new('3 cccccg')
Unit.new('3 yottagigamicrocg')

I don't know what should happen (is a ccg a hundredth of a hundredth of a gram, or just meaningless garbage?), but I presume silently throwing away input is not the desired behavior.

[olbrich]

I think the intended behavior would be to only recognize a single prefix, centi-centi-meters is silly and I'm fairly sure there's a standard somewhere that says you can only have one prefix.

[Nkburdick]

At least for SI units, @olbrich Is correct. You are only supposed to have one prefix. SI Brochure

From Wikipedia:

The prefixes are never combined, and multiples of the kilogram are named as if the gram was the base unit. Thus a millionth of a metre is a micrometre, not a millimillimetre, and a millionth of a kilogram is a milligram, not a microkilogram.