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Re:GNU Units by dheera on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:29PM (#25666550)

First time user. Failed on me.

    You have: 25 C
    You want: K
    conformability error
        25 A s
        1 K

    You have: 1 cup flour
    Unknown unit 'flour'

I think I'll stick with Google.

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Re:GNU Units by gsk22 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:22PM (#25666888)

Well, flour isn't a unit...

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Re:GNU Units by AlotOfReading on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:02PM (#25667152)

It's relevant information if you're converting to mass, which was probably the intention. Google will return the correct result for "mass 1 cup flour", by comparison.

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Re:GNU Units by greydius on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:44PM (#25687377)

There is no correct way to turn "1 cup flour" into a mass. For one thing, you can fit more into the same volume by compressing. But more importantly, the material is ambiguous. There are many different kinds of flour with varying physical properties.

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Re:GNU Units by mkesper on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:12AM (#25670593)

Neither is cup...

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Re:GNU Units by klyrs on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:52AM (#25672373)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

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