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When doing engineering calculations it is great convenience to do have software that keeps track of units.

Example when calculate something trivial as stress:

$\sigma = \frac FA$

And be able to write:

$\frac {1kN}{1m*1mm}$ and get the answer in MPa

This is by nature a poll thread that i know is frowned upon on StackOverflow, is it going to be closed?

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    One of the top search results for "units software" is the appropriately named [GNU Units](http://www.gnu.org/software/units/), which lets you say "You have: *ten furlongs per fortnight* / You want: *kilometers per hour*" and tells you "0.0059871429".2012-11-01
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    Write that as an answer, I guess F# is an answer too though I was looking for a GUI app.2012-11-01

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