May I also lament the lack of donkeypower for those days when the supermarket has just plain run out of horses.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:02:47PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Let's say you have a football field in need of a trimming, but the lawn > mowers are all broken, but you have an oxen store nearby. Oh, and the big > match is in an hour. How many oxen do you need? > > Normally, you'd use units, but... > You have: m2/hr > You want: ox > unknown unit 'ox' > > Easy fix. Working from historical defintion of an acre as the area an ox > can work in a day, we get: > > You have: m2/hr > You want: ox > * 0.0059305292 > / 168.61902 > > Tada! Now you know that 6400 m^2 field you have is going to require 38 > oxen. > > Index: units.lib > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/tedu/cvs/src/usr.bin/units/units.lib,v > retrieving revision 1.11 > diff -u -r1.11 units.lib > --- units.lib 17 Jul 2002 16:42:12 -0000 1.11 > +++ units.lib 13 Oct 2010 23:49:55 -0000 > @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ > > acre 4840 yd2 > > +ox acre/day > + > cc cm3 > liter kilocc > ml milliliter
