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Re: Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories

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Post by KodyBerns99 »

jandrese wrote: post #88
progbits wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doubtful since those usually use vague analogies to stadiums, pickup trucks and guns.

If you already have 5,800 units what's the harm of adding "typical refrigerator (volume)", "typical washing machine (volume)", "American football field (area)", etc...?

Thanks for the feedback. I never said I am not going to add. This is the only reason I shared it here so that I can get some help in adding more units.

I have already added football field in length category. Will add more soon.

Re: Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories

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Post by chrismorgan »

jonwiseman wrote: post #115
whatshisface wrote: post #100

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I am afraid you may have misunderstood them. It's not that you can't add a centimeter to an inch, it's that you have to convert units first. The unit symbols are intended to help indicate when a unit conversion would be necessary. What many find confusing is the fact that Hz and rad/s are both (in terms of basic physical units) advertised as s^-1. To resolve the issue, you could define 1Hz as 2pi/s on the grounds tha…

I might have misunderstood them, but I tried to argue that I was indeed converting units. Namely, 1 inch + 1 cm = 1.254 in (cm->in implicitly converted). Also, defining a Hz as 2pi/s seems to be mixing units and quantities, like a Hz is 2 [pi/s] (where [] stores units), where pi is a unit equal to 6.28 [unitless]. Intead, defining a Hz as 2pi/s is to me changing the definition of Hz, unless it's like 2pi / 2pi [1 / s…

> 1 inch + 1 cm = 1.254 in

That should be 3.54cm.

Re: Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories

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Post by bradknowles »

So, the thing about fuel economy is that it is calculated very differently in Europe versus in the US. In Europe, they do liters per 100km, whereas in the US we measure in terms of miles per gallon.

So, mi/g => l/km requires a different kind of conversion than most of the others shown. You have to first convert mi/g to g/mi, then you can convert to l/km and then multiply by 100.

Frankly, I think the European method makes a lot more sense to me, especially as you get to higher and higher levels of efficiency. With mpg, the numbers get stupidly big when you're saving relatively small amounts of fuel. With l/km, the numbers get smaller and smaller as you increase your efficiency, and it shows you how relatively little you're actually increasing the amount of fuel saved.

Re: Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories

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Post by KomoD »

skilled wrote: post #49
quaintdev wrote: post #21

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I wonder if OP used ChatGPT for development as well as content of this site

He did. A lot of the tools say things like, “in this article” …

That makes me doubt all the results the site gives.

Re: Show HN: I created Units Converter that contains 5000 units across 78 categories

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Post by bashinator »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #113
bashinator wrote: post #64

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I couldn't find a way of converting from US teaspoons to cubic light-seconds, which is my favorite demo of the GNU utility. Also, do you have a way of adding a time dimension to the conversions? E.g from kibibytes per day to megabits per second?

My favorite is millilightseconds miles, for calculating maximum distance to a server or minimum possible latency for a distance.

Obligatory https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
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