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@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@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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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)