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--- Begin Message ---Package: units Version: 1.85-3 Severity: normal The man page explains why I have had some nasty bugs pop up in my calculations: Multiplication has a higher precedence than division and is evaluated left to right, so `m/s * s/day' is equivalent to `m / s s day' and has dimensions of length per time cubed. Similarly, `1/2 meter' refers to a unit of reciprocal length equivalent to .5/meter, which is probably not what you would intend if you entered that expression. You can indicate division of numbers with the vertical dash (`|'). This operator has the highest precedence so the square root of two thirds could be written `2|3^1|2'. This is a poor choice, because algebraic notation says that division has equal precedence to multiplication, and such operations are performed left to right. This is the convention used in algebra, algebraic calculators, and most computer languages. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations Since any such change is liable to break existing units scripts, it might be wise to make use of a commandline switch or environment variable to switch between the historical implementation and this, if this were to be changed. Cute: You have: 2/3/4 You want: Definition: 0.16666667 You have: 2/3*4 You want: Definition: 0.16666667 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages units depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.1-6 GNU readline and history libraries units recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: units Source-Version: 1.87-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of units, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: units_1.87-1.diff.gz to pool/main/u/units/units_1.87-1.diff.gz units_1.87-1.dsc to pool/main/u/units/units_1.87-1.dsc units_1.87-1_amd64.deb to pool/main/u/units/units_1.87-1_amd64.deb units_1.87.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/u/units/units_1.87.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated units package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:54:50 -0500 Source: units Binary: units Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.87-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: units - converts between different systems of units Closes: 359658 456544 Changes: units (1.87-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release . Upstream made "*" and "/" the same precedence. Closes: #359658: units: precedence of '/' is bad . Units reads ~/.units.dat if it exists before reading the standard units database. Closes: #456544: units: $UNITSFILE doesn't override default anymore Checksums-Sha1: 1c0ef9d6a0c434ecb8ae80cc7bec37dc2da1c2a4 1065 units_1.87-1.dsc 106f9751fab6de4fc1fe27e735a1080262ba372a 254893 units_1.87.orig.tar.gz a5ce41326670728dd5893477a8debb3864ce3edc 5566 units_1.87-1.diff.gz 0a41bb7c86dfe06e89fdef46a304ca57ad933b7c 145804 units_1.87-1_amd64.deb Checksums-Sha256: b3f7bd8faecf51b600cef12cf8f219fde26ce55b1e0c215a36bd6a0adbb8664d 1065 units_1.87-1.dsc d9cb59b62c14b0c6e437902b2284b5debac6452ad549761cab12985abcca2dad 254893 units_1.87.orig.tar.gz a74c1f4822debb1dd1242c14347f9f7af7219a2261f45a42e3ce4af3ef6ecf4f 5566 units_1.87-1.diff.gz 1dccf33175e88419466edae642c8815a9d4c090428f198134f3a8b993e783b95 145804 units_1.87-1_amd64.deb Files: 7486d9c113d10d563afea0952f4f8439 1065 utils optional units_1.87-1.dsc 8cf47adf29e38a9aa744e8d5246d1bec 254893 utils optional units_1.87.orig.tar.gz 79160dba94c111e8debdc558c05cc03d 5566 utils optional units_1.87-1.diff.gz 3366a4ea59dc520464ab8fc2be65fcb0 145804 utils optional units_1.87-1_amd64.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBSISAmvc1CeQKxb5hAQLYugQAxIR/K1ohY91O8pNVntBmxvmRHsVR3LW4 yBXNr6mTwJ3ilLD6z6eWtK+71656G88O3P6StHt4mgA+ZYXKqRK0s3bjcrNMwfWx Sv+v9C2zuJIqnCT9+GSLSvhkBdkZvKzOJHqb1BXcRCthnw8cN37BkFBDA2KFZpFc 11gRE8hsq/E= =6tGZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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