[RndTbl] Units(1) for RTFM?

Gilles Detillieux grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca
Tue Apr 21 10:30:09 CDT 2015


But can it handle speeds in attoparsecs per microfortnight?

Evidently it can!

You have: 1 attoparsec/microfortnight
You want: m/s
         * 0.025509901
         / 39.200466

(i.e. about 1 inch/s).

On a related note, did you know ft/s and km/h are pretty close to the 
same?  (http://what-if.xkcd.com/64/)

You have: 1 km/hour
You want: ft/s
         * 0.91134442
         / 1.09728


On 04/21/2015 09:22 AM, Sean Walberg wrote:
> My favourite has always been:
>
> You have: 1 nanoacres
> You want: mm2
> * 4.0468564
> / 0.24710538
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Bradford C. Vokey <brad at fsi.ca 
> <mailto:brad at fsi.ca>> wrote:
>
>     And once again, I learn something new from the master Adam.
>
>     I'z immediately "yum install units"
>
>     I think units(1) might make a good RTFM? Especially going over
>     some of it's esoteric units (i.e. millilightseconds? really?).
>
>     Or have we done units and I just can't remember?
>
>     ===
>     Bradford C. Vokey
>
>     Treasurer
>     Manitoba Unix User Group
>     ===
>
>     On 2015-04-21 6:53 AM, roundtable-request at muug.mb.ca
>     <mailto:roundtable-request at muug.mb.ca> wrote:
>>     Feeling slightly giddy, I typed into my shell:
>>
>>     $ units
>>     1311 units, 63 prefixes
>>
>>     You have: 3 millilightseconds
>>     You want: miles
>>              * 558.84719
>>              / 0.0017893979
>>
>>     "500 miles, or a little bit more."
>

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)

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