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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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`Buckingham <https://code.google.com/p/buckingham/>`_

`Magnitude <http://github.com/juanre/magnitude.git>`_

`SciMath <https://github.com/enthought/scimath.git>`_

`Python-quantities <https://github.com/python-quantities/python-quantities.git>`_

`Unum <https://bitbucket.org/kiv/unum>`_

`Units <https://bitbucket.org/adonohue/units/>`_

`udunitspy <https://github.com/blazetopher/udunitspy>`_

If your are aware of another one, please let me know.