Units??

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:21, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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
>
Arghh!! Never thought of that.  So is the line 
2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
actually telling me something about itself?

Anne
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