From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 10 6:15:23 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1D237B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C03643E4A; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:15:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8732A534A; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:15:16 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.lib References: <200207100913.g6A9DgKX009215@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Jul 2002 15:15:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joerg Wunsch writes: > I don't feel obligued to do that. It's getting a bikeshed discussion. > The currency rates have been here for many years, and nobody ever > cared about them. Now that i fix a single rate, people start > yelling -- no, i won't remove them alltogether. You didn't fix anything. You just taught units(1) to give a *different* incorrect answer to six decimal places: You have: 1 dollar You want: euro * 1.010101 / 0.99 all fine and dandy, except today's rate is 1.0115, and last Friday it was 1.03, and tomorrow's rate will be something else again, and next month it might be 0.95 or it might be 1.15, who knows? And you still insist this is meaningful? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message