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Re:Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator ... by antrion on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:43PM (#14626854)
Really great tool! Thanks for the hard work. It would also be really nice to specify custom units, such as

    ≫ U = 1e-6/60 * kat
    
      U = 1.66667e-8 kat
Because now it does this

    ≫ 1 kat -> U
    
      1 kat -> U
    
       = 1 kat
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Re:Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator ... by sharkdp on Saturday June 24, 2017 @03:48PM (#14627171)
Thank you for the feedback. Defining own units does not work currently, but you can simply divide by your new unit:

  >>> U = 1e-6/60 * kat
  
    U = 1.66667e-8 kat
  
  >>> 1 kat / U
  
    1 kat / U
  
     = 60000000
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