Support million, thousand etc.

[kjk]

Currently "2 million" or "10 thousand" or "1 million / 10 thousand" are not recognized.

Those should be equivalent to "2 * 1 000 000", "10 * 1000" etc. i.e. unit-less multipliers.

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the feedback!

I've never found myself needing this, but it has been requested multiple times now. What kind of words would you add? Only powers of ten?

[kjk]

Yes, what comes to mind are common quantities: ten, hundred, thousand, million, billion.

For me it comes up when doing calculations about e.g. money, where you might ask "how much is $1 million/year per month?".

It's easier to write "1 million / 12" than to count number of zeros when typing "1000000".

[perryprog]

It would also be nice to have acronyms like "1m / 12". Could it also be possible to define your own? Maybe in some sort of config?

EDIT: "m" is taken by milli, maybe something like milli

[leipert]

What about the financial abbrieviations like mn or bn?

[sunaku]

Why not use scientific notation which is already built-in? For example, a million is 1e6 and a billion is 1e9.

Edit: Insect raises an error when capital E is used, but lowercase e works fine, so use e instead. 💡

[perryprog]

Good point, that works good enough.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:58 PM Suraj N. Kurapati ***@***.***> wrote: Why not use scientific notation <https://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html> which is already built-in? For example, a million is 1E6 and a billion is 1E9. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#86 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMXw_cU5JNPCmYjPvT7D0L8S0aZeuN_4ks5sH-MpgaJpZM4OEaTQ> .

-- Thanks, — Perry

[leipert]

A reason would be: Not everyone knows scientific notation. You could also write 1 MN / N :)

[perryprog]

You probably at least know the basics of scientific notation if you’re using this calculator. Also, what would the `N` be?

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:41 PM Lukas Eipert ***@***.***> wrote: A reason would be: Not everyone knows scientific notation. You could also write 1 MN / N :) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#86 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMXw_bEQtWW40E3sP3Qjli1OVk9en4R_ks5sIBd4gaJpZM4OEaTQ> .

-- Thanks, — Perry

[leipert]

simply: 1 MegaNewton divided by Newton :)

[perryprog]

Ah right.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 5:29 PM Lukas Eipert ***@***.***> wrote: simply: 1 MegaNewton divided by Newton :) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#86 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMXw_XKFQzynUiW4jZweOn_2c-mHwrnZks5sICK3gaJpZM4OEaTQ> .

-- Thanks, — Perry

[sharkdp]

This is now supported. Would be great if someone could verify that this works as intended.

Examples:

>>> 1 million / 10 thousand

  1 × million / (10 × thousand)

   = 100

>>> 5 million kilogram -> tons

  5 × million × kg ➞ ton

   = 5000 ton

[perryprog]

It looks like it works how I described. Don't forget to push to NPM! 😄

[sharkdp]

Don't forget to push to NPM

Done: v4.9.0.