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Re: Unit Conversion.



On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:44:06PM +0100, green wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600:
> > josé Santos wrote:
> > > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny,
> > > google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you.
> > 
> > For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from
> > converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful
> > for many scientific calculations and has stored values for many physical
> > and other units and constants. It can also convert things like US$ to
> > Euro or more exotic currencies, where the exchange rates are updated via
> > the internet.
> 
> I like qalculate because it
> - can be used it on the command line
> - will solve equations like '2x=4' or whatever

qalculate is a very nice find, its far more than I hoped for, although units serves me well to.
Thank you very much fellow Debian users. 

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