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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