Units??

[Anne Wilson]

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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