units does everything
Aug. 31st, 2004 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
{1} dmaze% units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
There's this program called units. It does everything. Well, it won't read your email. But you can do things like find out how big that "120 GB" hard drive really is:
You have: 120 gigabytes
You want: gibibytes
* 111.75871
/ 0.0089478485
What about cooking? Iron Chef Units can figure out how much butter you need:
You have: 2 tbsp butter
You want: stickbutter
* 0.25
/ 4
I hear they say, "a pint's a pound the world 'round." Is it?
You have: 1 pint water
You want: pound force
* 1.0431756
/ 0.95861142
Hmm. We should check to see if it's versed in the classical sciences, like, say, alchemy:
You have: lead
You want: gold
* 1.0519553
/ 0.95061071
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to know about ISO standard units:
You have: 364.4 smoots
Unknown unit 'smoots'
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
There's this program called units. It does everything. Well, it won't read your email. But you can do things like find out how big that "120 GB" hard drive really is:
You have: 120 gigabytes
You want: gibibytes
* 111.75871
/ 0.0089478485
What about cooking? Iron Chef Units can figure out how much butter you need:
You have: 2 tbsp butter
You want: stickbutter
* 0.25
/ 4
I hear they say, "a pint's a pound the world 'round." Is it?
You have: 1 pint water
You want: pound force
* 1.0431756
/ 0.95861142
Hmm. We should check to see if it's versed in the classical sciences, like, say, alchemy:
You have: lead
You want: gold
* 1.0519553
/ 0.95061071
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to know about ISO standard units:
You have: 364.4 smoots
Unknown unit 'smoots'
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