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Physical Quantities and Measures (PQM) is a Node and browser package for dealing with numbers with units

github.com/GhostWrench/pqm

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The following tables in CSV format are an abbreviated version of the NIST ["Special Publication 811: NIST Guide to the SI" Appendix B.9](https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-appendix-b-conversion-factors/nist-guide-si-appendix-b9). They are converted to a more easily machine readable format and are used for verifying conversion accuracy of units in the db.json file. They have the following basic format: | Convert From | Convert To | Multipy By | Supported | | ------------ | ---------- | ---------- | --------------- | | ft / s | m / s | 3.048e-01 | true | Which means that (1 ft / s) approximately equals (3.048e-01 m / s). The last row indicates if the conversion is supported by the units located in the `unitdata/db.json` database file. Non obvious or confusing units may have a full name included in parenthesis to avoid confusion. For example: | Convert From | Convert To | Multipy By | Supported | | ------------- | ---------- | ---------- | --------------- | | Gal (Galileo) | \[c\]m / s^2 | 1.0 | false | It is assumed that most people would easily confuse this unit with the more common "Gallon". So special notation is helpful.