{"id":29494,"date":"2023-09-17T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29494"},"modified":"2023-09-17T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:36:09","slug":"mscalc-exe-gives-strange-units-in-the-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29494","title":{"rendered":"mscalc.exe gives strange units in the conversions."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i noticed this starting with windows 10.  someone sent me a bit of (alleged) windows source code with the string definitions for these and a few dozen others.  these are also a good example of the stuff that could be <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?tag=bci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">instantly looked up via bci<\/a>.  <s><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29500\" target=\"_blank\">story idea &#8220;how do we interect with each other when we can instanly look up stuff. how would work bedifferent, 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