On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > At some time in the past, I recall having a version of kcalc that had a > menu of conversion utilities, such as inch/metric & vice versa. > I really recommend the 'units' program. It's very basic, commandline program but it has an amazing built-in collection of units. The neat thing about units is that it parses the expressions, so you can just write expressions mixing and matching units at will. For instance, I calculate the body mass index (BMI) which is given in kg/m^2 thusly: units '182 lb / (185 cm)^2' kg/m2 Interestingly, there's a 'units' Android app that I use all the time, and even more curiously, 'units' is built-in into main Google search window. The same example can be calculated by Google by entering the above as the search string: 182 lb / (185 cm)^2 in kg/m2 I had another example of it, when I was calculating the parameters of my torque wrench, deltaX = T L^2 / (3 E I), and entered this into Google: 150 lbf ft (429mm)^2/(3 * 210 GPa (pi/4) (12.4mm/2)^4) , in mm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
