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≫ 1 month -> days
1 month -> d
= 30.4167 d
≫ 1 year -> days
1 year -> d
= 365 dThis is pretty cool, it's one of the rare applications I've used where the things I've tried "just work". For example "10 kg to g", "c", "c to km s^(-1)", "c to km/s" all work intuitively. It's great it works at the command line too. Something I wish I'd had when I was studying Physics.
GNU units(1)
≫ U = 1e-6/60 * kat
U = 1.66667e-8 kat
≫ 1 kat -> U
1 kat -> U
= 1 kat≫ round(pi * 1000000000000000000) = 3141590000000000000
(similar comment by @btown down there about e)
> high precision ≫ e*1e15 e × 1000000000000000 = 2718280000000000 Needs a bit of work, I think.
I'd be cool to have this as a python script somewhere but I am not quite sure wether I would visit this site whenever I need to calculate some physical units, especially since google already covers most of my needs
dont get me wrong, I think otherwise it looks and feels great and is easy to use but I dont know who will use this.
> high precision ≫ e*1e15 e × 1000000000000000 = 2718280000000000 Needs a bit of work, I think.
I would love to see two more things:
1. Propagation of uncertainty.[1] I often yearned for a calculator that automatically propagated uncertainties for me while writing my (high-school) lab reports. I think it would be life-saver functionality for many students at the very least.
2. True high-precision. I don't know how Insect works under the hood (so maybe you are already doing it this way) but instead of using high-precision results of the operations, store the operations themselves and calculate the final result at the end with the desired amount of precision.
I am aware that both requests requires a tremendous amount of change so you might as well think of them for the next major version! =)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty