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dholland 8cf15952a4 Update radioactivity-related units from http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/. The prior definition of sievert was, as far as I can tell, entirely wrong. Caution: while "gray" and "sievert" have the same dimensionality, they're not interchangeable -- you need to multiply by a fudge factor that varies depending on the type of radiation and the tissue it's affecting. (Dimensional analysis is often not a substitute for knowing what you're doing.) It would be nice if units had a way to warn users when they're trying to do something that doesn't make sense, since there are lots of ways to do so, but it doesn't, and it wouldn't be easy to arrange in the general case.		2011-03-28 00:08:47 +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)