<div dir="ltr">My favourite has always been:<div><br></div><div><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></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Bradford C. Vokey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@fsi.ca" target="_blank">brad@fsi.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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>
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Or have we done units and I just can't remember?<br>
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<div>On 2015-04-21 6:53 AM,
<a href="mailto:roundtable-request@muug.mb.ca" target="_blank">roundtable-request@muug.mb.ca</a> wrote:<br>
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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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