Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:18:22 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.lib Message-ID: <p0511174bb9529a395547@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200207102103.g6AL3s8Y046834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200207100913.g6A9DgKX009215@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpr8ibhmlb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de> <xzplm8jg1wc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207102103.g6AL3s8Y046834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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At 5:03 PM -0400 7/10/02, Garrett Wollman wrote: ><<On 10 Jul 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said: > >> 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? > >Most exchange rates do not change very rapidly over time. They change a lot faster than the conversion between inches and centimeters. *I* notice the exchange-rate changes, and all I care about is ordering some electronic music CD's from Dundee. Perhaps the 'units' command (or its man page) could provide a URL for finding out what the current exchange rates are. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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