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1. cables; US cables are 720 ft, but international cables are 1/10 nautical mile and UK Admiralty cables are 1/10 of 1853.2 meters instead of 1852 meters. Make "cable" refer to the international definition, and add "uscable" and "admiraltycable". 2. rods and chains. US rods and chains and furlongs are defined in terms of US survey feet, not international feet. Since the US is apparently working on retiring survey feet, it seems like the best way forward on this is to define two sets of these units, one prefixed with "us". Also since this file was inconsistent about using "survey" vs. "surveyors", fill in more duplicates. Furthermore, Gunter's rods and chains and links are as best I can tell the same as the international ones, so since we already have "gunterschain" add "guntersrod" and "gunterslink". 3. If we're going to make pf a special abbreviation for picofarad, it's reasonable to make uf a special abbreviation for microfarad, and if we're going to define "meg" for "megabyte" we should also have "gig". 4. A "franklin" _is_ a statcoulomb, not an approximation of one. 5. "jewel" has two Es. |
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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)