Questions about calculating with units in Mathematica.

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Simpler input for the new unit support

I've been playing with the new unit support in Mathematica 9. It seems very useful, but the syntax is very verbose. Instead of typing: ...
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Built-in unit strings recognized by Quantity?

It’s great that Quantity can utilize Wolfram Alpha to interpret unit strings that it doesn’t recognize, but I need my code to work on machines that do not have Internet access. Is there a complete ...
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Should 0 * 5ft be 0 or 0ft?

After playing with the new quantity system in Mathematica 9 for a while, I keep stumbling over this issue: 0 * Quantity[1, "Meters"] is not the same as ...
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Getting all physical units with prefixes

How we can get the list with all physical units and prefixes from WolframAlpha and make symbols from the result to be equal their corresponding quantities like described in this post?
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Unexpected behavior of UnitConvert

When I evaluate this expression: ...
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Implementing CGS unit system in Mathematica 9

So I've just installed the trial version of Mathematica 9. The first noticeable feature for me is the new built-in physical units. I used AutomaticUnits package ...