https://github.com/mpetroff/nugacious

Quantity comparisons
https://github.com/mpetroff/nugacious

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Quantity comparisons

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mpetroff/nugacious
• Owner: mpetroff
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-09-07T12:02:20.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-08-28T22:09:49.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T12:45:30.571Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://nugacious.mpetroff.net/
• Size: 23.5 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: COPYING

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# Nugacious

Nugacious compares physical quantities. Enter a quantity, and the closest

match, five other randomly chosen close matches, and five completely random

matches are returned. Want more random comparisons? Just reload the page or

click the "Get more comparisons" button.

## Name

Nugacious [noo-**gey**-sh*uh* s] is a synonym of trivial and refers to

the insignificant nature of the quantity comparisons provided.

## Requirements

* Python 3

* Django 1.7

### Python Packages

* numpy

* pint

* simpleeval

* smartypants

* markdown

## Data

Comparisons are made against a set of roughly 700,000 physical quantities

extracted from [DBpedia](http://dbpedia.org/), an ontology created from

Wikipedia infoboxes. Length, area, volume, time, speed, mass, temperature,

power, voltage, frequency, density, and torque are covered to varying degrees.

## License

Nugacious is distributed under the MIT License. For more information, read the

file `COPYING`.

## Credits

Nugacious was built by [Matthew Petroff](//mpetroff.net/) using

[Python](//www.python.org/), [Django](//www.djangoproject.com/),

[Pint](//pint.readthedocs.org/), and [Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/).

The information icon and the more comparisons icon are from

[Font Awesome](http://fontawesome.io/).