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Tom Hukins 8b582d6ee0 Add the British hundredweight (brhundredweight). For discussion, see: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20030630/019926.html For a definition, see: http://www.bartleby.com/61/55/H0325500.html Also add some more computing terms described at: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_data_type Reviewed by: dwmalone MFC after: 2 weeks		2003-07-01 10:33:27 +00:00
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units.lib	Add the British hundredweight (brhundredweight). For discussion, see:	2003-07-01 10:33:27 +00:00

README

# $FreeBSD$

This is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units'
command.  I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work,
with some restrictions.  I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and
Ultrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1.  

This program differs from the unix units program in the following
ways:
   it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output
   it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers
   prefixes are listed in the units file
   it tries both -s and -es plurals
   it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input
   the output format is somewhat different

Adrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu)