Can you imagine if all of us generated long email threads instead of just hunkering down and solving problems?
Someone just has to do it. There's no need for chit-chat... > 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 was that the man page was outdated and it did handle them now; 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
