From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 10 19:18:33 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 AB4FA37B400; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED2C43E09; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:18:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6B2INB2045632; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:18:24 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200207102103.g6AL3s8Y046834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200207100913.g6A9DgKX009215@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200207102103.g6AL3s8Y046834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:18:22 -0400 To: Garrett Wollman , Dag-Erling Smorgrav From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.lib Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 5:03 PM -0400 7/10/02, Garrett Wollman wrote: >< 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