Re: CCL:Units Conversion
I can recommend a WWWeb site which will carry out such
conversions interactively:
...
My recommendation for people who have to deal with unit conversions
often is to get a copy of GNU-Calc, a free calculator add-on for the
GNU-Emacs editor. Among other useful features (ranging from matrix
computations to graphics, and including even elemetary symbolic
calculations) it has a very flexible unit conversion system that
lets you even complicated units easily. It can be found wherever
you can get GNU software.
1 calorie = 4.1868 joule (fewer than the requested six
significant figures)
Because 4.1868 J is exact - by definition.
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