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Find more conversion values with Google
Authored by: renderhead on May 25, '05 11:57:30AM
Google is an invaluable tool for finding more conversion values to add to your table. To find the value for "Tablespoon (US)", for example, go to Google.com and type:

1 liter in tablespoons

and submit. You'll get the handy results:

1 liter = 67.6280451 US tablespoons

which you can use as your invLinForm() value. It works for just about any units you can think of. For fun, figure out and add a conversion to and from "Stones" in the "Weight" category!

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Authored by: PeteVerdon on May 25, '05 03:13:45PM
Alternatively, use the command-line "units" program, which has been around for donkey's years and is included in Panther and Tiger (and probably earlier).

[pete@Al pete]$ units
500 units, 54 prefixes
You have: 20 litres
You want: pints
        * 42.267528
        / 0.023658824
You have: 2 parsecs
You want: miles
        * 3.8347023e+13
        / 2.6077643e-14
You have: ^D
[pete@Al pete]$
Pete

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Authored by: dubmaster on May 27, '05 04:18:39PM

yeah, only hick with "units" is that it doesn't do temperature. No fahrenheit to celsius or vice versa.


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-- Dub



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Authored by: PeteVerdon on May 28, '05 04:03:36AM

I believe at least some versions of it now do. I don't know if the one that comes with OS X does.

Pete



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Authored by: ben42 on Jun 12, '05 11:30:21AM

I tried this method with tablespoons and teaspoons, and it worked great, except that when I converted 1 pint to teaspoons I got 95.9999 instead of 96. Not enough decimal places in the Google definition (the units program in Terminal has even less). So I looked around and found another site with one more decimal place: http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm. That one did the trick.



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