Units of measurement 3.4

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A library for dealing with and converting dimensioned values. The library features: physically correct mixed unit arithmetic such as adding feets and meters yielding a right result; shifted units like degree of Celsius and Fahrenheit; string input and output of dimensioned values of all SI and a great variety of irregular units. UTF-8 encoding is supported. Unit checks are made at run-time. It is possible to write applications dealing with values of unknown in advance dimensions. Extensive documentation and examples are provided. Ready-to-use unit converters for Unix and Windows are provided as well. The GTK converter functions everywhere a GTK 2.x implemetation is available. A GTK unit selecion widget is provided.

VERSION HISTORY

  • Version 3.4 posted on 2014-06-01
    Gtk 3.x support
  • Version 2.8 posted on 2008-07-06
    Sources of irregular units are documented

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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Public License.