Re: Using standardized SI prefixes
Joe Smith wrote:
> Also just rembering the exact conversion factors for
> Imperial units can be a problem especially with some of the more obscure
> units.
Nope - google knows everything!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=email&rls=email&q=100+m%2Fs+in+fathoms+per+fortnight
"2 parsecs in smoots" returns
2 Parsecs = 3.62637237 × 10^16 smoots
http://www.kottke.org/03/08/fun-with-the-google-calculator
If you lack net access at any given moment, then there's a *nix utility
named units, which is conveniently already packaged in debian.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/units Thanks to John Hasler for
that one.
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