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For people in Python-world, I've tried many units packages and tend to prefer https://pint.readthedocs.io For the bedroom example someone posted, here's the equivalent in pint: import pint # Possibly my least favorite thing about Pint is # the verbose importing/instantiating dance u = pint.UnitRegistry() q = u.quantity() # there are multiple ways of making <Quantity> objects: volume = q('10 feet') * q(10, 'feet') * (10 * u.feet) volume.to('gallons) # How deep could you fill the room? (q('2 tons') / (q('10…

This is interesting, but I doubt anything will ever come up in my lifetime that is even close to replacing Emacs Calc for me. I still consider it to be the best scientific calculator ever written. It's crazy that many Emacs users aren't even aware that it exists. It comes with an almost ridiculously extensive manual, complete with exercises and everything: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/calc.htm... It's probably overkill for most people, and I'm sad that I don't get to use it as much…

> "I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them." Not wrong with how the AI arms race is looking.