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UNITS(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual UNITS(7) 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 fashion: You have: inch You want: cm * 2.54 / 0.393701 Quantities are specified using the following grammar: Unit: Empty | Unit Term | Unit / Term Term: Number | Name | ( Unit ) | square Term | sq Term | cube Term | cu Term | Term ^ Number Numbers are specified in the form expected by atof(3). Names are maxi- mal strings of non-numeric, non-punctuation characters. Powers are in- dicated by the operator or by the words and Parentheses alter grouping. The empty unit has value 1. Terms are multiplied together unless con- nected by for inversion, e.g. 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 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. A response of to `You want:' displays all known units conformable with the `You have:' quantity. The complete list of units can be found in and FILES BUGS Since units does only multiplicative scale changes, it can convert Kelvin to Rankine, but not Centigrade to Fahrenheit. Currency conversions are only as accurate as the most recent report of foreign exchange prices from the AP wire. UNITS(7)