I highly recommend GNU units for stuff like this. It’s insanely powerful. See the following comment for its immense versatility
Have you tried using a calculator?
I’m fairness, a calculator wouldn’t explain how to get there. An LLM might not explain it correctly, but it will explain it.
WolframAlpha will do the right math, and walk you through it (though IIRC you have to pay for that part).
Pretty sure I am using the free version, or if I paid it was a one time thing and long ago but it will walk you thru at least some problems. Example:
If that’s WolframAlpha Classic, you probably paid for it a decade ago like I did.
You are right! There isn’t any indication in the app itself that I could find though; but when I searched it up on google play it says I have classic installed, not standard.
how is a calculator going to explain to you that you forgot to convert units
Edit: looks like I’m switching to GNU Units
Use Wolfram Alpha, which is a mathematics engine first and text parser second (and it shows: the math is flawless but it wouldn’t understand the query; both need to be asked separately: 1/2). ChatGPT performs similarly this time but I wouldn’t trust it to expand a polynomial because there is very high chance that it would hallucinate some terms.Of course, any calculator will do for this, it’s easy to verify that 2÷3×14 = 14÷1.5, no need to have a server run a billion times more complex calculation.
isn’t it funny how humans will end up using a trillion times more energy so that the calculator can be less reliable, but acts like a person
