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Pint 0.6: faster and with better non-multiplicative units support

I have released version 0.6 of Pint, a Python units library. Pint is Python package to define, operate and manipulate physical quantities: the product of a numerical value and a unit of measurement. It allows arithmetic operations between them and conversions from and to different units. It provides a comprehensive and extensive list of physical units, prefixes and constants defined in a standalone text file. The registry can parse prefixed and pluralized forms of units resulting in a much shorter and maintainable unit definition list. It also provides great NumPy integration without monkey patching or importing a particular module, with implicit unit conversion and an emphasis on correctness. What's new The largest change landed in the way Pint handles offset units such as temperatures. It now provides a much better behavior that is both correct and useful. It deals properly with differences of temperatures, providing useful error messages when the requested operat