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UNITS(1) General Commands Manual UNITS(1) NAME
units - conversion program SYNOPSIS
units DESCRIPTION
Units converts quantities expressed in various standard scales to their equivalents in other scales. It works interactively in this fash- ion: You have: inch You want: cm * 2.54000e+00 / 3.93701e-01 A quantity is specified as a multiplicative combination of units optionally preceded by a numeric multiplier. Powers are indicated by suf- fixed positive integers, division by the usual sign: You have: 15 pounds force/in2 You want: atm * 1.02069e+00 / 9.79730e-01 Units only does multiplicative scale changes. Thus it can convert Kelvin to Rankine, but not Centigrade to Fahrenheit. Most familiar units, abbreviations, and metric prefixes are recognized, together with a generous leavening of exotica and a few constants of nature including: pi ratio of circumference to diameter c speed of light e charge on an electron g acceleration of gravity force same as g mole Avogadro's number water pressure head per unit height of water au astronomical unit `Pound' is a unit of mass. Compound names are run together, e.g. `lightyear'. British units that differ from their US counterparts are prefixed thus: `brgallon'. Currency is denoted `belgiumfranc', `britainpound', ... For a complete list of units, `cat /usr/lib/units'. FILES
/usr/lib/units BUGS
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units(1) User Commands units(1) NAME
units - converts quantities expressed in standard scales to other scales SYNOPSIS
units DESCRIPTION
units converts quantities expressed in various standard scales to their equivalents in other scales. It works interactively in this fash- ion: You have:~~inch You want:~~cm * 2.540000e+00 / 3.937008e-01 A quantity is specified as a multiplicative combination of units optionally preceded by a numeric multiplier. Powers are indicated by suf- fixed positive integers, division by the usual sign: You have:~~15 lbs force/in2 You want:~~atm * 1.020689e+00 / 9.797299e-01 units only does multiplicative scale changes; thus it can convert Kelvin to Rankine, but not Celsius to Fahrenheit. Most familiar units, abbreviations, and metric prefixes are recognized, together with a generous leavening of exotica and a few constants of nature including: pi ratio of circumference to diameter, c speed of light, e charge on an electron, g acceleration of gravity, force same as g, mole Avogadro's number, water pressure head per unit height of water, au astronomical unit. Pound is not recognized as a unit of mass; lb is. Compound names are run together, (for example, lightyear). British units that differ from their U.S. counterparts are prefixed thus: brgallon. For a complete list of units, type: cat /usr/share/lib/unittab FILES
/usr/share/lib/unittab ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 units(1)