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.. _faq:
Frequently asked questions
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Why the name *Pint*?
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Pint is a unit and sounds like Python in the first syllable. Most important, it is a good unit for beer.
You mention other similar Python libraries. Can you point me to those?
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`natu <https://kdavies4.github.io/natu/>`_
`Buckingham <https://github.com/mdipierro/buckingham>`_
`Magnitude <https://github.com/juanre/magnitude>`_
`SciMath <https://github.com/enthought/scimath>`_
`Python-quantities <https://github.com/python-quantities/python-quantities>`_
`Unum <https://bitbucket.org/kiv/unum>`_
`Units <https://bitbucket.org/adonohue/units/>`_
`udunitspy <https://github.com/blazetopher/udunitspy>`_
`SymPy <https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/physics/units/index.html>`_
`cf units <https://github.com/SciTools/cf_units>`_
`astropy units <https://github.com/astropy/astropy>`_
`yt <https://github.com/yt-project/yt>`_
`measurement <https://github.com/coddingtonbear/python-measurement>`_
If you're aware of another one, please contribute a patch to the docs.
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