allow fromwei and toWei to accept numbers as units

[luu-alex]

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Total

Files count	Total bundle size	% Changed
10	624.48 kB → 624.93 kB (+467 B)	+0.07%

Changeset

File	Δ	Size
../web3-errors/lib/commonjs/errors/utils_errors.js	📈 +317 B (+6.21%)	4.98 kB → 5.29 kB
../web3-utils/lib/commonjs/converters.js	📈 +532 B (+2.52%)	20.6 kB → 21.12 kB
../web3-errors/lib/commonjs/error_codes.js	📈 +66 B (+0.62%)	10.38 kB → 10.45 kB

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Bigger

Asset	File Size	% Changed
web3.min.js	605.18 kB → 605.64 kB (+467 B)	+0.08%

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Asset	File Size	% Changed
../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	8.69 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	3.89 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/types.d.ts	2.67 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	1.35 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/web3_eip6963.d.ts	1.2 kB	0%
../lib/commonjs/abi.d.ts	999 B	0%
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	280 B	0%
../lib/commonjs/providers.exports.d.ts	183 B	0%
../lib/commonjs/version.d.ts	60 B	0%

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Benchmark

Benchmark suite	Current: 356cbb5	Previous: 553f270	Ratio
processingTx	8879 ops/sec (±4.79%)	9223 ops/sec (±3.52%)	1.04
processingContractDeploy	38280 ops/sec (±7.60%)	38080 ops/sec (±7.25%)	0.99
processingContractMethodSend	18589 ops/sec (±6.86%)	19561 ops/sec (±4.97%)	1.05
processingContractMethodCall	39152 ops/sec (±4.01%)	38511 ops/sec (±5.89%)	0.98
abiEncode	42815 ops/sec (±7.28%)	43655 ops/sec (±6.63%)	1.02
abiDecode	29994 ops/sec (±6.32%)	29655 ops/sec (±8.94%)	0.99
sign	1530 ops/sec (±3.49%)	1555 ops/sec (±3.84%)	1.02
verify	367 ops/sec (±0.58%)	371 ops/sec (±0.51%)	1.01

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 85.71429% with 2 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 91.96%. Comparing base (553f270) to head (c53a0a9).

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web3-utils	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-validator	∅ <ø> (∅)

[Muhammad-Altabba]

Sorry, this ** will cause an issue. More at: #6506