On Thursday 23 February 2017 03:35:54 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 22.02.17 22:43, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > This is my cue to remind everyone that Google has a built-in units > > converter with tons of units built in, not just inches. You can > > simply type your expression (44mm sqrt(3)/3) and ask for the result > > "in inches": > > Didn't know that. But then, I have not needed to venture past > "Unix is the (multifaceted) IDE". ;-) > > $ units > 2526 units, 72 prefixes, 56 nonlinear units > > You have: 44 mm * sqrt(3)/3 > You want: inches > * 1.0001343 > / 0.99986569 > > The manpage has interesting examples, such as converting grains to > aeginamina, and just finding what a jansky is. I sometimes use the > wiregauge to mm conversion. > > And for Gene, it is happy to convert: > > You have: furlongs per fortnight > You want: m/s > * 0.00016630986 > / 6012.8727 > > (Add --verbose to the invocation if the output is too cryptic.) > > Erik
I must have forgotten the required smiley on those phrases somewhere along the line, my apologies. In this world, I've had a tendency to use that whenever the subject has descended to about the level of pointing a finger and laughings ones ass off. ;-) But I don't believe I am the only one quilty of emitting that phrase either. It does have a catchy cadence to it. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
