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So "megabytes" appears to be the power-of-ten unit, which is generally not that helpful in practice. ≫ 6 megabytes to bytes 6 MB -> B = 6000000 B Assuming you're sticking with the power-of-ten unit, that means you should really grow support for the (sigh) "mebibytes" family of units; i.e., what some folks are retro-actively calling the power-of-two byte unit. ≫ 6 mebibytes to bytes 6 × mebibytes -> B Unknown identifi…
I'd call them "MB (megabytes)" and "MMB" (marketing megabytes). Pretty clear.
It is more properly referred to as "MeB" - "mebi", which became an ISO standard prefix in 2008.
I'm a little confused as to how this improves on GNU units, which seems to support far more: $ cat .units period(len) units=[m;s] 2pi*sqrt(len/gravity) ; (period/2pi)^2 * gravity $ units 2980 units, 109 prefixes, 97 nonlinear units You have: period(20cm) You want: Definition: 0.89729351 s You have: period(20cm) You want: ms * 897.29351 / 0.0011144625 You have: period(2ft) You want: ms * 1566.5419 / 0.00063834872 You…
Units is a bonus but really just the calculator is less frustrating than anything else I've ever seen. Google search is too unpredictable - morphing into a typical confusing 1970's style keypad design after your first calculation. I tried a couple of desktop applications and they were no better either. Come one calculator app designers - stop trying to copy a physical calculator. Those already have a terrible design and computers don't have the same constraints or freedoms as them.
Even better, it can act like a desktop Windows app simply by saving the page in Chrome! Beat that for latency, Google!
I tried to enter 3 5 which was interpreted as 3 * 5. Seems a bit risky to me :) Otherwise looks neat.
Thank you for the feedback. That is intentional. Whitespace (or even lack thereof, as in "2x") is implicit multiplication. Otherwise, you'd have to write multiplication signs everywhere: 2*sin(5*cm/(2*m))
This is exactly what I've been looking for for years. A fast easy calculator that's as convenient as a physical school calculator but with familiar programming style input since computers don't have scientific calculator keys. I can do sqrt(2) much easier than Windows' calculator and it doesn't have the ridiculous attempt to copy a physical calculator's quirks like pressing equals twice to re-apply the previous opera…
Note: if you're on MacOS and are using the supplied 'units' utility, that is BSD, not GNU units. You're going to want to install gunits from Homebrew.
This 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.
All of these things work in Google, btw. Google has one of the best unit conversion tools, and it's built into the search.
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