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Yes, that's what GNU units does:

  $ units
  Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2016-06-21 
  2926 units, 109 prefixes, 88 nonlinear units
  
  You have: 7.8L/10km
  You want: miles/gallon
  	reciprocal conversion
  	* 3.0155716
  	/ 0.33161209
I think it's fine for a calculator to make guesses as long as it makes it very clear that it's doing so.



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