Unit notation

Most units can be entered in the same way that they would appear in textbook calculations. They usually have a long form (meter, degrees, byte, …), a plural form (meters, degrees, bytes), and a short alias (m, °, B). For a full list of supported units, see this page.

All SI-accepted units support metric prefixes (mm, cm, km, … or millimeter, centimeter, kilometer, …) and — where sensible — units allow for binary prefixes (MiB, GiB, … or mebibyte, gibibyte, …). Note that the short-form prefixes can only be used with the short version of the unit, and vice versa (that is: kmeter and kilom are not allowed, only km and kilometer).

Units can be combined using mathematical operations such as multiplication, division and exponentiation: kg * m/s^2, km/h, m², meter per second.

The following snippet shows various styles of entering units:

2 min + 1 s
150 cm
sin(30°)
50 mph
6 MiB

2 minutes + 1 second
150 centimeters
sin(30 degrees)
50 miles per hour
6 mebibyte

Note that Numbat also allows you to define new units.