Unit Converter

About This Tool

The tool provides a lightweight, client‑side unit conversion engine supporting common measurement categories (length, area, volume, mass, temperature, and speed). It uses a curated unit dictionary with scale factors and offsets where needed. This tool is designed for speed and reliability in engineering tasks, lab prep, cooking, and travel planning.

How it works conceptually: The user supplies a numeric value, a source unit, and a target unit. The engine validates unit compatibility and identifies the category. It normalizes to a base reference (meters for length, kilograms for mass, liters for volume, Celsius for temperature, meters per second for speed). Temperature uses explicit offset handling: C → F, K; For non‑temperature, result = value × (factor_to_base / factor_from_base). Then it converts from the base to the target unit and applies the requested precision. Examples: 5 km to miles ≈ 3.10686 mi; 100 C to F ≈ 212. 2 L to gal ≈ 0.52834 gal.

Audience and differentiators: students, researchers, cooks, and travelers benefit from broad unit coverage, deterministic factors, and a simple API‑friendly output. The primary value is rapid, repeatable conversions with clear error handling and configurable precision. The tool avoids network calls and minimizes ambiguity by enforcing dimensional compatibility and using explicit temperature logic. Optional features include aliases for unit names and user‑defined precision.

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