Rink

A unit conversion tool in Rust. The name is a subset of frink, another unit conversion tool, to indicate that this tool implements a subset of frink's features.

Install

cargo install rink

Examples

> kWh/year -> W
0.11407955270702466 (dimensionless)

> W -> J
Conformance error
   Left side: 1 m^2 kg / s^3 (power)
  Right side: 1 m^2 kg / s^2 (energy)
  Suggestion: multiply left side by time
              multiply right side by frequency

> oil tonne -> kWh
11630 (dimensionless)

The number of atoms in 12kg of lead:

> 12 kg / lead avogadro
34877263650579153000000000 (dimensionless)

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rink = "0.1"

and this to your crate root:

extern crate rink;

License

Source code licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

The data file units.txt is from frink and is assumed to be licensed under the GNU GPL v3 because it is based on the data file from GNU Units(1), however the frink author has not acknowledged this and the copyright header from the file has been removed.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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