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Great story with the added bonus of showing me the GNU Units command. What a fantastic program, no more Googling when I need to convert stuff.
by michaelx386 12y ago
Great story with the added bonus of showing me the GNU Units command. What a fantastic program, no more Googling when I need to convert stuff.
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoIndeed, I just checked OSX - sadly, units doesn't know about millilightseconds ("586 units, 56 prefixes").
- abecedarius 12y ago"milli lightsecond" should do it.
- gregsadetsky 12y ago"milli lightsecond" doesn't work on OSX unfortunately (under 10.6 at least). One value which does work is "3 c-millisecond". (I learned this by reading the /usr/share/misc/units.lib file and finding the lightyear definition: "c-yr")
- abecedarius 12y agoAh, whoops, I assumed it was GNU Units. Thanks and c-millisecond is cute.
- taejo 12y agoGNU Units (available in Homebrew) is much more complete than the OS X version.
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoMuch better: "2562 units, 85 prefixes, 66 nonlinear units" Since it took me a moment to figure it out, heres how to install it: brew install gnu-units then run as: gunits So it lives happily besides the default units command.
- wmil 12y agoIt still won't let me convert 'bytes / square mm' to my prefered data density format, 'libraries of congress / football field'. So it needs work.
- astrodust 12y agoIt does, amusingly, know about nanoacres, a unit of measurement sometimes employed when describing chip die surface area.
- marcosdumay 12y agoTake a look at qalculator. You won't even remember about Units after it.
- mamcx 12y agoAlso good: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/ http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/
- rdc12 12y agoOr were you using GNU Units the whole time? http://revealingerrors.com/google_miscalculator http://revealingerrors.com/google_miscalculator