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dholland 0561f14b04 Improve the parser. Now we understand negative exponents; fixes PR 50768. Also handle negative numbers better in general (don't randomly drop the sign in a number of cases) and don't choke on exponents > 9. This commit alters the meaning of a few previously valid but marginal inputs (e.g. "3 foot-5 pound" is now treated as "3-5 foot-pound" rather than "35 foot-pound"; if you want the latter insert another space) but corrects obviously wrong handling of many more.		2016-02-05 03:30:08 +00:00
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units.c	Improve the parser. Now we understand negative exponents; fixes PR 50768.	2016-02-05 03:30:08 +00:00
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README

#	$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1996/04/06 06:00:59 thorpej Exp $

This is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units'
command.  I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work,
with some restrictions.  I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and
Ultrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1.  

This program differs from the unix units program in the following
ways:
   it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output
   it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers
   prefixes are listed in the units file
   it tries both -s and -es plurals
   it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input
   the output format is somewhat different

Adrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu)