On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:56, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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? > > Section form man usits: > INTERACTING WITH ‘UNITS’ > To invoke units for interactive use, type ‘units’ at your shell > prompt. > The program will print something like this: > > 2131 units, 53 prefixes, 24 nonlinear units > I presume that they are the units of measurement, including 24 nonlinear units, though I'm not so sure about the prefixes. Amme
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