On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:41:19 -0500
"Burns MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> David spake:
> > That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but:
> > 12 inches = 1 foot
> > 3 feet = 1 yard
> > ???? yards = 1 mile
> >
> From my Navy years:
> 1760 yards to a nautical mile. A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude
at
> the equator.
> a 'cable' is 200 yards
> a shackle is about 90 feet
> a fathom is 6 feet
>
And you got this information where?
[david@tole david]$ units
2112 units, 59 prefixes
You have: 1 statutemile
You want: yards
* 1760.0035
/ 0.00056818068
You have: 1 nauticalmile
You want: yards
* 2025.3718
/ 0.0004937365
You have: 1 fathom
You want: feet
* 6.000012
/ 0.16666633
You have: 1 shackle
Unknown unit 'shackle'.
You have: 1 cable
You want: yards
* 202.53718
/ 0.004937365
Nice program, units. Be careful: nm == nanometers (as in light
wavelength, not in nautical miles; there are other gotchas with the
program as well -- consult /usr/share/units.dat for all the gory details).
Looks like you need to put the definition of shackle into units (or did
you just misspell it?).
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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