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Re: [OT] Imperial measures



On 10/05/2011 03:18 PM, John Hasler wrote:
doug writes:
Thanks to Artha, which is billed as a Thesaurus, but is a really
useful dictionary as well.  It's in the pclos repos, don't know about
other distros.
"units" knows about kilderkin, and just about any other unit of measure
you can imagine.

you're right!  It even knows this:

You have: furlongs per fortnight
You want: miles per hour
        * 0.00037202381
        / 2688
 --doug

BTW a kilderkin is two firkins.


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