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How can I get the list of units accepted by mathjs? #3178

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You can lookup math.Unit.UNITS, and write out every unit with every prefix that it can have:

const allUnits = Object.values(math.Unit.UNITS).flatMap(unit => {
  return Object.values(unit.prefixes).map(prefix => prefix.name + unit.name)
})
// [ "meter", "decameter", "hectometer", ... ] 

This currently returns a list with 2748 items.

If you just need to know if some string is a unit, you can use the following method:

const isUnit = math.Unit.isValuelessUnit("millimeter") // true

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