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UNITS(1)							      UNITS(1)

NAME
       units - conversion program

SYNOPSIS
       units [ -v ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
       Units converts quantities expressed in various standard scales to their
       equivalents in other scales.  It works interactively in this fashion:

	      you have: inch
	      you want: cm
		  * 2.54
		   / 0.3937008

       A quantity is specified as a multiplicative combination	of  units  and
       floating point numbers.	Operators have the following precedence:

	      + -	     add and subtract
	      * / × ÷	     multiply and divide
	      catenation     multiply
	      ² ³ ^	     exponentiation
	      |		     divide
	      ( ... )	     grouping

       Most familiar units, abbreviations, and metric prefixes are recognized,
       together with a generous leavening of exotica and a  few	 constants  of
       nature including:

	      pi,π    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

       The  is a unit of mass.	Compound names are run together, e.g.  British
       units that differ from their US counterparts are	 prefixed  thus:  Cur‐
       rency is denoted etc.

       The complete list of units can be found in /lib/units.  A file argument
       to units specifies a file to be used instead  of	 /lib/units.   The  -v
       flag causes units to print its entire database.

EXAMPLE
       you have: 15 pounds force/in²
       you want: atm
	       * 1.020689
	       / 0.9797299

FILES
       /lib/units

SOURCE
       /appl/cmd/units.y
       /appl/cmd/units.b

BUGS
       Since  units  does  only	 multiplicative	 scale changes, it can convert
       Kelvin to Rankine but not Centigrade to	Fahrenheit,  except  that  the
       latter is handled as a special case.
       Currency	 conversions  are  only	 as  accurate as the last time someone
       updated /lib/units.

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