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Comment by Arnavion

7 months ago

The * value is the result of converting 10 miles to meters, as requested.

The / value is the inverse of that in case you wanted that, ie 0.1 meters in miles.

It's explained in `man 1 units`

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bqmjjx0kac  7 months ago

Oh, I know it's explained in the man page. I read it every time and promptly forget because I can't internalize the choice of notation.

  • spacepotato  7 months ago

    If you find the output a bit hard to parse at times (as I do), you might want to try qalc instead, I use it all the time from the terminal to do conversions:

        $ qalc 
    > 3 millilightseconds to miles

      3 milliLightSeconds ≈ 558 mi + 1491 yd + 0.1692913386 ft

    I'm not sure if it has all the same units as `units` does, but it replaced my use of it entirely as it can do other useful operations as well