Unitful: convert frequency to wavenumber

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I am trying to convert frequency in THz to wavenumber in cm^-1 by doing uconvert(1THz / c0, 1.0u"cm^-1"). But I get the following error:

ERROR: MethodError: no method matching uconvert(::Quantity{Float64,𝐋⁻¹,Unitful.FreeUnits{(THz, m⁻¹, s),𝐋⁻¹,nothing}}, ::Quantity{Float64,𝐋⁻¹,Unitful.FreeUnits{(cm⁻¹,),𝐋⁻¹,nothing}})

How can I fix this error?

Ideally, I would like to be able to do 1THz |> cm^-1 to obtain the wavenumber from a frequency. Is this possible?

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julia> using Unitful

julia> wn(f) = uconvert(u"cm^-1", float(f/Unitful.c))
wn (generic function with 1 method)

julia> 1u"THz" |> wn
33.3564095198152 cm⁻¹

I think you had the arguments in the wrong order.

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I made a little package for this, NaturallyUnitful.jl

julia> using NaturallyUnitful

julia> natural(1u"THz")
0.0006582119459370421 eV

julia> unnatural(u"cm^-1", 1u"THz")
33.3564095198152 cm^-1
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This package is nice. But it would be more useful if it were possible to redefine u"cm^-1"() so that 1THz |> cm^-1 automatically uses unnatural(u"cm^-1", 1u"THz").

At the moment, I find it more convenient to define cm1 = uconvert(u"cm^-1", float(f/Unitful.c)) and do 1THz |> cm1 than use unnatural(u"cm^-1", 1u"THz").