Template talk:Convert

Converting to more than 1 unit
Hello there, I want to convert the thrust of the engine to the article Kuznetsov NK-32 from kgf to kN and lbf but how do I do that? Vitaium (talk) 11:39, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Per Template:Convert, you would use 14000 kgf. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 13:05, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

e6t in a table
In the third table at Danube I can't figure out why the final columns are displaying differently to all the others with exactly the same markup (extract below).

As you can see, adding "abbr=values" makes no difference at all. I want the displayed values to be 72.9 and 80.4 Thryduulf (talk) 16:44, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It's been too long since I've thought about Module:Convert for me to have a definitive answer without significant thought and I won't have time for that until the weekend. The key problem is that the million for the input unit comes from the default of the input not being abbreviated. However, the output  is abbreviated and that gives the ugly exponent. The option to override that is   which gives both input and output unit symbols but preserves multiples such as million. Demo:
 * → 67.3 e6t
 * → 67.3 e6t
 * Problem:  needs   to show the numbers only (  is the default for  ). I can't think of a workaround at the moment. In a few days I'll sit down and work out what's going on and might come up with a solution. Johnuniq (talk) 23:50, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * The heading says million for the output, so shouldn't the input be divided by a million too?
 * ie  giving:


 * Good point! Johnuniq (talk) 00:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I've updated the table in the article. Thryduulf (talk) 08:45, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason to use the odd term "metric ton" rather than the correct tonne? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:02, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The article is written in American English and the correct term in that variety is "metric ton", e.g.
 * 72.9 ST → 72.9 ST Thryduulf (talk) 10:38, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Different orders of magnitude in a range?
I just came across the need to convert "between 500 million and 1 billion pounds." Is there an elegant way to do this, or am I stuck with "0.5 billion" or "1000 million"? See Hydrogen cyanide. ~ ฅ(ↀωↀ&#61;) neko-channyan 21:38, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The article currently has plain text: "between 500 million and 1 billion pounds (between 230,000 and 450,000 t)". Convert can't handle that kind of operation. You would have to muck around with:
 * → 500 e6lb
 * → 1 e9lb
 * Johnuniq (talk) 23:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Angular Units
Why are there no conversions for units of angular measurement?

Degrees (deg), radians (rad), milliradians (mrad), mils (mil—which exist in NATO, Soviet, and Polish streck variants), gradians/gons (grad/gon), grade/slope (%), gradient (run for every 1 unit of rise), ratio (rise/run), turns (tr/pla), (compass) points/winds (pt/wind), arcminutes/minutes of arc/minutes of angle (arcmin/'/moa), arcseconds (arcsec/"), hour angles, binary radians/binary degrees (brad), quadrants, sextants, octants are just a few of the common ones that should be included, and there are several other historical and parochial units of angular measurement as well.

Hermes Thrice Great (talk) 05:38, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * For the record, here are previous discussions. It's not clear to me what useful conversions would actually be needed.
 * Template talk:Convert/Archive September 2015
 * Template talk:Convert/Archive October 2019
 * Template talk:Convert/Archive 2
 * Template talk:Convert/Archive 2
 * Johnuniq (talk) 05:58, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Linear feature density
At Transport in Switzerland I've found a need to convert 122 km/1000 km2 into imperial (probably something like miles per 100 or 1000 sqmi). Is this something convert can handled? In the article I've gone with separate conversions to come up with 122 km per 1000 km2 which is not ideal. Thryduulf (talk) 16:58, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Best I can find is  to display as 0.122 km/km2
 * In theory we should be able to use e3km2 and e3sqmi but these don't work.  Stepho  talk 17:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Similarly at List of prominent mountains of Switzerland there is that I've just left as I can't work out anything sensible (I don't think 0.0109 /km2 is particularly useful). Thryduulf (talk) 17:36, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Found a really clumsy and dirty technique:  displays as 122 mi
 * This relies on km/km2 converting to mi/sqmi being the same ratio as mi to km - ie km/km2 is same as 1/km and 1/km -> 1/mi being the same ratio as mi -> km. Dirty, very dirty.
 * Sadly, this trick doesn't work for summits per area.  Stepho  talk 17:57, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * If there were a heap of these, new units for "1000 km2" and "100 sqmi" and "100 km2" could be defined. I'm not sure how clean the result would be but it might be reasonable. Johnuniq (talk) 03:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)