Are there any apps to convert units?

[figure9]

Is there a units conversion application for ubuntu? Basically a program that will convert a clumsy unit like kilometers per hour a useful unit like furlongs per fortnight?

[Fbot1]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=bJd&q=1+foot+in+microns&btnG=Search

[bruce89]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=bJd&q=1+foot+in+microns&btnG=Search

In other words, search google for things like "1 foot in centimetres" etc.

Furlongs per fortnight sounds very clumsy.

[~LoKe]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=bJd&q=1+foot+in+microns&btnG=Search

Google is not an application.

[Fbot1]

Google is not an application.

but web browsers are

[bruce89]

Google is not an application.

Fine, try this:



#include <stdio.h>

enum
{
INCH_TO_CM = 1,
POUND_TO_KG = 2,
FOOT_TO_M = 3
} mode;

int
main (void)
{
int mode;
double imperial;
double metric;

printf ("Choose from the menu\n");
printf ("1 -- Inches to centimetres converter\n");
printf ("2 -- Pounds to kilograms converter\n");
printf ("3 -- Feet to metres converter\n");
scanf ("%d", &mode);

switch (mode)
{
case INCH_TO_CM:
/* Program 1 */
printf ("Enter inch value ");
scanf ("%lf", &imperial);
metric = imperial * 2.54;
printf ("%lf\n", metric);
break;
case POUND_TO_KG:
/* Program 2 */
printf ("Enter pounds value ");
scanf ("%lf", &imperial);
metric = imperial * 0.4535924;
printf ("%lf\n", metric);
break;
case FOOT_TO_M:
/* Program 2 */
printf ("Enter feet value ");
scanf ("%lf", &imperial);
metric = imperial * 0.3048;
printf ("%lf\n", metric);
break;
default:
fprintf (stderr, "Mode not recognised\n");
}
return 0;
}



gcc -g -Wall -o conv conv.c

[JonUK76]

Yes, add the ConvertAll program through Add/Remove programs. Works for me :)

[Fbot1]

Fine, try this:



#include <stdio.h>

enum
{
INCH_TO_CM = 1,
POUND_TO_KG = 2,
FOOT_TO_M = 3
} mode;

int
main (void)
{
int mode;
double imperial;
double metric;

printf ("Choose from the menu\n");
printf ("1 -- Inches to centimetres converter\n");
printf ("2 -- Pounds to kilograms converter\n");
printf ("3 -- Feet to metres converter\n");
scanf ("%d", &mode);

switch (mode)
{
case INCH_TO_CM:
/* Program 1 */
printf ("Enter inch value ");
scanf ("%lf", &imperial);
metric = imperial * 2.54;
printf ("%lf\n", metric);
break;
case POUND_TO_KG:
/* Program 2 */
printf ("Enter pounds value ");
scanf ("%lf", &imperial);
metric = imperial * 0.4535924;
printf ("%lf\n", metric);
break;
case FOOT_TO_M:
/* Program 2 */
printf ("Enter feet value ");
scanf ("%lf", &imperial);
metric = imperial * 0.3048;
printf ("%lf\n", metric);
break;
default:
fprintf (stderr, "Mode not recognised\n");
}
return 0;
}


gcc -g -Wall -o conv conv.c

Lol, wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to just use multiplication and division.

[mikelygee]

As a command-line sort of guy, I use "units":


$ units
1989 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units

You have: kilometres per hour
You want: furlongs per fortnight
* 1670.2424
/ 0.00059871548
You have:
^D

or simply:

$ units "kilometres per hour" "furlongs per fortnight"
* 1670.2424
/ 0.00059871548

[quanumphaze]

Try "Qalculate!"
It's an advanced calculator with a conversion feature.

Find it in Add/Remove

[Vadi]

Qualculate does everything.

[sobakasu]

Or try convertall. It's in the repos but I haven't yet tried it personally.
It's a QT app, though -- does anybody know if there's a GTK alternative? Under Windows, I loved Abby (http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=abby). I don't know, there might be something as simple for Linux without the need for using WINE?

[swordsearcher]

Here is one....


Quad-Lock Unit Converter (http://www.swordwarrior.net/UnitConverter.html)

[HermanAB]

The program 'units' is pretty good:

$ units
2439 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units

You have: 12 liters per hundred kilometers
You want: miles per hogshead
reciprocal conversion
* 1234.8766
/ 0.00080979754

You have: 160 kilometers per hour
You want: furlong per fortnight
* 267239.32
/ 3.7419643e-06

The * is the answer you want, the / is the reciprocal, which is sometimes useful.

Cheers,

Herman

[adamklempner]

I know it is not a stand alone app, but:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/

does pretty much everything I have ever thrown at it. And I am an engineer who has worked with some very odd units...

[Iandefor]

I'll have to give another shoutout to units. It handled kilometers per hour to furlongs per fortnight without a hitch:


ian@leviathan:~$ units "1 kilometer per hour" "furlongs per fortnight"
* 1670.2458
/ 0.00059871429It's also good enough to tell me the speed of light in a vacuum in stadia per month in the Islamic calendar:

ian@leviathan:~$ units -t "299792458 meters per second" "stadia per islamicmonth"
4.1303298e+12

[shrinux]

Yes, add the ConvertAll program through Add/Remove programs. Works for me :)
Thanks man :-)

[bobbocanfly]

Google uses GNU "units" (the command everyone is telling you about). I watched a talk where someone (Benjamin Mako Hill?) typed in a phrase that bugged out in GNU Units, and got the exact same output from Google.

[mips]

Basically a program that will convert a clumsy unit like kilometers per hour a useful unit like furlongs per fortnight?

Why, did you invent a time machine?

[forrestcupp]

Google is not an application.

Google absolutely is an application. Google actually encompasses several applications. Their apps just happen to use a web browser as their vehicle. There's a reason they call one set of their applications "Google Apps".

If you've ever programmed a web app using PHP or any one of many other web languages, you probably wouldn't appreciate it if someone said it's not an application. ;)

But I'm willing to concede that a web page created with simple html is not and app.

[daverich]

I like using google ,- it'll do currency conversion too.

Kind regards

Dave Rich

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Gourmet does unit conversions if you ever need to do food stuff. It even handles densities in some cases. Really handy with butter, for example.
Otherwise, Qalculate is indeed the way to go,

[Paqman]

There's a great app called "elementary arithmetic" that can do this for you ;)

[Osmodivs]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=bJd&q=1+foot+in+microns&btnG=Search

He asked for "applications in UBUNTU".
:x

[sffvba[e0rt]

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