natural-language-unit-converter's Introduction

Natural Language Unit Converter

Natural langage input, conversion output

A unit converter on the command line which uses plain English as input

Usage

.\NLUC.exe "12 m/s in cm/min"

.\NLUC.exe "12 Mb in GB"

.\NLUC.exe "5m/day in mi/yr"

.\NLUC.exe "5 pennies in pounds"

.\NLUC.exe "20 kg in pounds"

.\NLUC.exe "2m in ft and inches"

.\NLUC.exe "15.55 days in hours and mins"

or just run .\NLUC.exe for a REPL-like environement

You can also use it in pipes in powershell:

.\NLUC.exe 200lb in kg | foreach {Write-Output "$_ =" ;.\NLUC.exe "$_ in g"}

You can also see 'reference' values:

.\NLUC.exe "1200kg as elephants" .\NLUC.exe "3.4km as empire state buildings" .\NLUC.exe "44F ref chickens"

References can have multiple values, each related to a base SI unit, eg. Elephant has mass height.

For a list of all available units and references, pass ? as the query

Support queries like:

15l/s in kg/min where 2 litres = 1.2 kilograms / 15l/s in kg/min where 2 litres is 1.2 kilograms
Volumes/areas
2 cups of water in kg
2km in steps where 1 step is 30cm - 'steps' may or may not be defined already
1 oz as gold - output x moles
<measurement> - output a measure of <base measurement>, eg km -> a measure of metres
15.55 days in hours, mins and seconds or 15.55 days in hours and mins and seconds or 15.55 days in hours mins seconds

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