[RndTbl] Units(1) for RTFM?

[Sean Walberg]

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> 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 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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