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I was so happy to discover that units command line program, then i realized that Google already does this, it just wasn't as fun.
by andrewchambers 12y ago
I was so happy to discover that units command line program, then i realized that Google already does this, it just wasn't as fun.
- tim333 12y agoyeah and units on the mac terminal doesn't recognise "3 millilightseconds" whereas Google works for "0.003 light seconds to miles"
- chris_b 12y agoworks exactly as in the blog post in fedora.
- lucb1e 12y agoAnd Debian. For Mac, try brew install gnu-units and then run gunits.
- TreyHarris 12y agoAs I wrote in the FAQ, I decorated my own units.dat (units.lib in some implementations) with lots of stuff because I like easily editing units. (Nowadays I use Emacs Calc, but I still add a bunch of my own units, like the binary prefixes like mebi, gibi, etc.) I suspect that a lot more can convert millilightseconds to miles out-of-the-box now at least in part because of the popularity of this story over the past 13 years.
- btilly 12y agoGoogle has units, but not detailed commentary on unit definitions. See https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt for that.