is a unit conversion calculator capable of performing conversions to and from metric, English, as well as many other foreign, ancient, and archaic units.
Conversions are grouped into 32 categories, which include: acceleration, angle, area, capacity, concentration, constants, density, elements, electricity/magnetism, energy, energy/unit area time, flow, force, force per unit length, geometry, heat, length, light, mass, mass per unit area, mass per unit length, mass per unit volume, material density, Periodic Table, power, pressure, radiation, temperature, time, torque, velocity, and viscosity.
The Periodic Table of the elements provides data on each element as well as pertinent information such as source, toxicity, uses, reactivity, etc.
It also includes a "Custom" category that lets you enter any specialized conversions.
All calculations can be printed, saved to file, or copied to the Windows Clipboard. A pop-up scientific/financial calculator is available within the program.
Comprehensive, on-line help available throughout provides much of the history behind the metric system and the conversion to the system.
SiCon runs on
Windows 3.1
and is available under the
Shareware
license
— the installer is 773 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Unit Conversion Calculators.
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