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Conversion between GB and MB (and KB)
You need to use 'better' units:
UnitConvert[Quantity[1, "GiB"], "MiB"]
Quantity[1024, "Mebibytes"]
See explanation and definitions in https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Why are Quantity and Units inconsistent with regular Mathematica behavior?
Not a solution but an extended comment.
You misunderstand the physical underpinnings of quantities and units.
Every physical quantity has an inherent margin of error, even if it is very small (...
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How to get Planck length in meters to 6 decimal places
You can use the relative uncertainty 1.1*10^-5 from the CODATA website you also referenced, and use Around to construct a value ...
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Convert radian to degree and add °
I resolved that using
(Pi/4) * (180 Degree /Pi)
Degree is a symbol similar to Pi, it ...
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Why is Mathematica messing with the time units in this simple equation?
First, regarding the substance of the calculation apart from Mathematica's unit handling: I think your input suggests some confusion about what you're trying to calculate. You say
your working days ...
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Unit Discovery: Is this some sort of a sick joke?
A bit too long for a comment...
My best guess is that WolframAlpha["earth's gravity", "MathematicaResult"] is simply rounding to too few digits. It returns ...
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How to summon Acceleration due to Gravity in Mathematica 11?
Rightly or wrongly, if the unit specification is unknown, then WA is used behind the scenes to decide if it could be interpreted as a standard unit. You can see this with the error message provided:
<...
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How to get Planck length in meters to 6 decimal places
The 4.652... at the end of 1.61625500000000006684132`4.652207380644164*^-35 should tell you that Mathematica knows this constant ...
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Why are Quantity and Units inconsistent with regular Mathematica behavior?
Is Mathematica V4 still for sale?
This answer proposes less drastic solutions than moving back for Version 4.
"Global" solution
For the problems you encounter and approach you take one -- ...
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Bug recognizing "Wavenumbers" as a unit of energy?
As noted in the comments, inverse centimeters do not have dimensions of energy, unless you consider $h$ and $c$ to be dimensionless, which Mathematica has no way to tell that you are doing. (Wolfram|...
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Change units in PlanetData["Earth", "Diameter"] from miles to km
You can use the UnitSystem option of EntityProperty,
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Plotting with units: emits error and gives incorrect plot
Look at what this gives:
Evaluate[h[x]/Hinf]
This is clearly wrong, you're adding x of no quantity to a quantity of ...
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Working with degrees minutes and seconds without conversion
You may use either MixedRadixQuantity or Quantity with MixedMagnitude and ...
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Physical (and other) constants
You can look through all of the units for the ones that are physical constants:
Quantity@"m";
Sort@Keys@QuantityUnits`Private`$UnitReplacementRules
(You need the ...
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Problem using UnitConvert
"Revolutions" is not immediately recognized as a special unit. So, preprocess first with UnitSimplify[]:
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Mathematica seems confused about Kilograms vs KilogramsForce
Under the hood, units not recognized by Quantity use Wolfram|Alpha's NLP to parse the unit.
In this case we see there are 2 possibilities:
It's probably worth ...
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Why is Mathematica messing with the time units in this simple equation?
"Hours", "Weeks" and "Years" are all time units:
UnitDimensions /@ {"Hours", "Weeks", "Years"}
{{{"TimeUnit", 1}}, {{"TimeUnit", 1}}, {{"TimeUnit", 1}}}
It is ...
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Dimensionless units like Percent are not treated consistently by functions like Exp or Log. How can pitfalls be avoided?
While the approaches in the comments (thanks a lot!) solve the issue, the question triggered me to try to "have my cake and eat it as well", i.e., enter quantities but decide globally ...
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FindMinimum with units?
You use x as a pure number (e.g., Quantity[x, "cm"]) and as a Quantity object (e.g., ...
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Convert natural unit to SI unit
A few months ago I wrote a function that converts from SI to natural units. A quick way to achieve the inverse conversion is to convert your target units, meters, to natural units to get about 5e6 1/...
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Why is Mathematica messing with the time units in this simple equation?
This is the computation you really want:
Quantity[40, "Hours"/"Weeks"]Quantity[251/7, "Weeks"]
Quantity[10040/7, "Hours"] r
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Exporting results containing Entities to JSON?
You can use "ConversionFunction" / "ConversionRules" for ...
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How to find all InformationUnits by code method?
Select[QuantityUnits`$UnitList,
MemberQ[First /@ UnitDimensions[#], "InformationUnit"] &]
{ADSLDownstreamSpeed,ADSLUpstreamSpeed,...
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Unitless quantities
Perhaps you can use "Unities" or "PureUnities". The unit "PureUnities" automatically gets turned into a number, while "Unities" needs a UnitConvert:
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How to add some bytes quantity?
Yes, so first we convert them into quantities:
quantities = Interpreter[Restricted["Quantity", "Megabytes"]][st]
Now we can eg add them with ...
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