GNU Units converts quantities expressed in various systems of measurement to their equivalents in other systems of measurement, including conversions from and to sums of units, such as converting between meters and feet plus inches. Beyond simple unit conversions, GNU Units can be used as a general-purpose scientific calculator that keeps track of units in its calculations. You can form arbitrary complex mathematical expressions of dimensions including sums, products, quotients, powers, and even roots of dimensions. Thus you can ensure accuracy and dimensional consistency when working with long expressions that involve many different units that may combine in complex ways.
The major changes Version 2.00 are: * Conversion to sums of units (e.g. feet and inches, or hours and minutes) * Support for unicode with UTF-8 * A script can update currency rates * Unit definitions can be set based on environment variables For more information visit http://www.gnu.org/software/units The new release can be obtained from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/ _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
