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Worth reading just to find out about the units(1) program. How did I miss that all these years?
by wgrover 15y ago
Worth reading just to find out about the units(1) program. How did I miss that all these years?
- btilly 15y agoIf you like the program, read through the data file: http://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt http://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt Some pure gold buried in there. For instance search for candela.
- Sniffnoy 15y agoHm, is there an archive of old versions of units.dat anywhere? Occasionally units get deleted from it - I used to keep old versions but I'd forgotten about this some time ago and haven't done so in a while. (Also that was several hard drive crashes ago so I no longer have the copies I made.)
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- 3pt14159 15y agoHahahahahhah Hilarious. Define the default symbol for the imaginary unit, that is, the square root of negative one. The default Unicode codepoint for the imaginary unit. (DOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL I) \u2148 := <<IMAGINARY_UNIT>> Also used for the imaginary unit (especially by electrical engineers, who use "i" to indicate current. (DOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL J) \u2149 := <<IMAGINARY_UNIT>> Redefine the letter "i" to also be the imaginary unit i := \u2148
- wgrover 15y agoOn the kilogram: "I dislike having a prefixed unit as the base reference. What a horrible decision. Why don't you just have it go to ten and make ten a little louder?" Exactly right.
- nfriedly 15y agoFYI units on OS X doesn't recognize millilightseconds, but you can do this: You have: 3 lightyears / 365 / 24 / 60 / 60 / 1000 You want: miles * 559.21802 / 0.0017882113
- saturn 15y agonice, except there's more than 365 days in a year : ) You have: 3 lightyears / 365.25 / 24 / 60 / 60 / 1000 You want: miles * 558.83525 / 0.0017894361
- ColinWright 15y agoNice, except there are less than 365.25 days in a year.