On 23.02.17 06:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2017 03:35:54 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > 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.
Oops, guilty of same. Shoulda been :^), perhaps.
(This medium is darned flat if we don't put a few in when mixing chat
with info. And I've flunked mind-reading all my life.)
> 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. :)
It's made its way down under, even - though you don't hear it so much in
the new millennium.
Here's a conversion you might seriously use, though:
$ units -1 $ -1 = Skip the reciprocal output.
You have: 280 oz force in # A stepper motor's torque.
You want: N m
* 1.9772345
Or maybe the reverse conversion? (In USA, they still sell ozs in tins, I
figure. They're extinct here. ;-)
Erik
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