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Whenever people say that they like google's unit conversion I like to mention GNU units. I would be surprised if google does a unit conversion that units can no
by dfc 13y ago
Whenever people say that they like google's unit conversion I like to mention GNU units. I would be surprised if google does a unit conversion that units can not handle.
After reading the aluminum statistic it seems that graphene is not going to replace my titanium shaft (that replaced the aluminum shaft).
- ewillbefull 13y agoCan GNU units or anything like it accept a string such as "100F to C" and understand what I'd like? If so I'd love to use that instead.
- dfc 13y agoTemperature conversions are a little goofy because they are nonlinear. Google's 100F to C is: dfc@ronin:~$ units 2866 units, 109 prefixes, 79 nonlinear units You have: tempF(100) You want: tempC 37.777778 The full explanation is here: https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Temperature-Conversions https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Tempera...
- Tloewald 13y agoI followed the like because I thought maybe i've been doimg temperature conversioms wrong all my life. Temperature conversions are so linear. They need to use a more correct term — e.g. simply proportional. Having to add or substract a constant before or after scaling does not make a relationship non-linear.
- sixbrx 13y agoThis may be getting pedantic, but the relationship is affine not linear - linear would mean k times the original input would yield k times the original output.
- est 13y agoIt does not convert currencies like Google.
- dfc 13y agohttps://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Currency https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Currenc...