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But can it handle speeds in attoparsecs per microfortnight?<br>
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Evidently it can!<br>
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You have: 1 attoparsec/microfortnight<br>
You want: m/s<br>
* 0.025509901<br>
/ 39.200466<br>
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(i.e. about 1 inch/s).<br>
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On a related note, did you know ft/s and km/h are pretty close to
the same? (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://what-if.xkcd.com/64/">http://what-if.xkcd.com/64/</a>)<br>
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You have: 1 km/hour<br>
You want: ft/s<br>
* 0.91134442<br>
/ 1.09728<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/21/2015 09:22 AM, Sean Walberg
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My favourite has always been:
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<div>You have: 1 nanoacres</div>
<div>You want: mm2</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>*
4.0468564</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/
0.24710538</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM,
Bradford C. Vokey <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:brad@fsi.ca"
target="_blank">brad@fsi.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#660000"> And once again, I
learn something new from the master Adam.<br>
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I'z immediately "yum install units"<br>
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I think units(1) might make a good RTFM? Especially going
over some of it's esoteric units (i.e. millilightseconds?
really?).<br>
<br>
Or have we done units and I just can't remember?<br>
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Bradford C. Vokey<br>
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Treasurer<br>
Manitoba Unix User Group<br>
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<div>On 2015-04-21 6:53 AM, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:roundtable-request@muug.mb.ca"
target="_blank">roundtable-request@muug.mb.ca</a>
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<pre>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: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca"><grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca></a>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/">http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/</a>
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
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