literate-calc-mode.el

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Hello! Great mode, it could replace all my uses of the Soulver app on macOS.

One question I have: I made the alias for using uconv to do unit conversions, but it's not working as I would expect. For example, let's say I do the following in calc:

'120 gal
'794 ft^2
/                 => 1:  0.151133501259 gal / ft^2
u c in            => 1:  0.242443324937 in

This is great. But in literate-calc-mode I have:

flow = 120 gal
surface_area = 794 ft^2
loss_by_flow = flow / surface_area => loss_by_flow: 0.151133501259 gal / ft^2
result = uconv(loss_by_flow, in) => result: 1.04953820319e-3 gal / in^2

This is not the answer I would have expected, although it's correct in some sense. Why is it only applying the unit conversion to the denominator here, and not to the whole result?