On 4/11/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rewrite units. it can convert euros to dollars at an awesome rate of > 94 cents per euro, but can't convert temperature.
What's worse is it *does* recognize 'degF' and 'degC' units, but the conversion between them only does the multiply/divide by 9/5, but not the add/subtract 32 part, so it gives incorrect results. While this inability is mentioned in the man page, it would be better to not include 'degF' at all than to have it be incorrect. Most equations would use SI units anyway, right? (When I first discovered the degF/degC units grep'ing through the units library, my first thought was that the man page was outdated and it did handle them now; unfortunately that is not the case.) Similarly, currencies fluctuate enough to not be worth including. Unfortunately, this limitation of multiplicative scales only most likely runs rather deep, and would probably require a large amount of work to fix. -Andrew
