Units??

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Dec 2 19:21:02 UTC 2006


On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:12:51PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I couldn't find it on the menu, so I tried :
> /usr/bin/units
> 2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
> You have:
> Clearly this is not what I intended :-)
> Question 1 - what units is this talking about?
> Question 2 - does anyone know how I can access the 'units' converter?

No, this is it. It just has a dumb user interface. It works like this:

You have: 1 meter
You want: inches
        * 39.370079
        / 0.0254
You have: 20000 leagues
You want: miles
        * 60000.12
        / 1.6666633e-05


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