DESCRIPTION
The UDUNITS-2 package provides support for units of physical quantities.
Its three main components are:
1) a C library for units of physical quantities;
2) a utility; for obtaining the definition of a unit and for
converting numeric values between compatible units;
3) an extensive database of units.
HOMEPAGE
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/
to download
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2
http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/udunits/index.html
the package is already present in the main linux distros
Regards
Marco
