A unit conversion tool in Rust. The name is a subset of frink,
another unit conversion tool, to indicate that this tool implements a
subset of frink's features.
Select features: - High-precision bignum rational arithmetic - Detailed error messages - IRC bot
cargo install rink
You must then download
units.txt
and install it in ~/.config/rink/units.txt (Linux),
%APPDATA%\rink\units.txt (Windows), or ~/Library/Application
Support/rink/units.txt (MacOS).
```
kWh/year -> W approx. 0.1140795 W (power) ```
```
W -> J Conformance error Left side: 1 m^2 kg / s^3 (power) Right side: 1 m^2 kg / s^2 (energy) Suggestion: multiply left side by time multiply right side by frequency ```
```
oil tonne -> kWh 11630 kWh (energy) ```
```
googol^100 1.0e10000 (dimensionless) ```
The number of atoms in 12kg of lead: ```
12 kg / lead avogadro approx. 3.487726e25 (dimensionless) ```
Add this to your Cargo.toml:
toml
[dependencies]
rink = "0.2"
and this to your crate root:
rust
extern crate rink;
Source code licensed under either of
at your option.
The data file units.txt is from frink and is assumed to be
licensed under the GNU GPL v3 because it is based on the data file from
GNU Units(1), however the frink author has not acknowledged this
and the copyright header from the file has been removed.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.