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Comment by hprotagonist | Hacker News Reader

how many gees is that?

    $ units
    You have: 100 km per hour / 0.956 sec
    You want: gravity
        * 2.9629132
        / 0.33750567

Protip: no need for a dedicated unit conversions utility, this awesome calculator has it built in:

    $ apt install qalc
    $ qalc
    > 100 km/h / 0.956 s to gee
      (100 * (kilometer / hour)) / (0.956 * second) =
      approx. 2.9629132 gees

The word “dedicated” does not correspond to verifiable facts, since `units` can do dimensionless / unitless calculations just fine; it is already a calculator with units built-in, and the example you provided only intensifies the impression that `qalc` and `units` are equivalent.

IMO a proper pro-tip for `qalc` would need an explanation why one should prefer it over `units`.

Python says this for 0 to 100 kph in 0.956s

    >>> 100*1000/3600/0.956/9.81
    2.961901417494933

So just about 3 standard Earth gravities!

This assumes uniform acceleration which isn't likely so that is the average.

About 2.96gs.

Using https://rechneronline.de/g-acceleration/, going from 0 to 100 km/h in .956 seconds says it is 2.96gs of acceleration.

3, as in "omg".

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