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# Unit defintions
-# 10 March 1998 M-J. Dominus (mjd-perl-units-id-iut+buobvyy+@plover.com).
+# 18 May 2001 M-J. Dominus (mjd-perl-units+@plover.com).
# This file is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
# All rights abandoned.
#
# If you discover definitions of units that do not appear in this
-# file, you are invited to mail them to mjd@pobox.com, so that I can
-# include them in a future version. Please include the date of this
-# file, 3 March 1996, with all such submissions.
+# file, you are invited to mail them to mjd-perl-units+@plover.com, so
+# that I can include them in a future version. Please include the
+# date of this file, 18 May 2001, with all such submissions.
# If a unit is defined as `***', that means
# it has no definition because it is a fundamental unit.
+# http://perl.plover.com/units/unittab
+
# Fundamental units:
# Seven instrinsic SI units:
gram ***
-metre ***
+meter ***
second ***
ampere ***
candela ***
dB decibel
# LENGTH
-m metre
-km kilometre
-cm centimetre
-mm millimetre
-micron micrometre
+m meter
+km kilometer
+cm centimeter
+mm millimeter
+micron micrometer
inch 2.54 cm # This is the official definition and is exact
in inch
inches inch # plural
pica 12 pt
didot 1238|1157 pt
dd didot
-cicero 12dd # TeX likes to abbreviate this to cc, but cc is cubic centimetre
+cicero 12dd # TeX likes to abbreviate this to cc, but cc is cubic centimeter
scaledpoint 1|65536 pt # Internal to TeX
sp scaledpoint
acre chain furlong # Now you know why an acre is the size it is
rood 1|4 acre
township 36 mi2 # Who uses these?
-barn (1.0E-12 centimetre)2 # Particle physics
+barn (1.0E-12 centimeter)2 # Particle physics
board 144 in3/ft # Implies `board feet'
# VOLUME
cc cm3
-litre (decimetre)3
-ml millilitre
+liter (decimeter)3
+ml milliliter
stere m3
floz 29.573 ml # `floz' means `fluid ounce', which is different
# from `ounce', which is a measurement of mass.
firkin 9 gal # American firkin, not British firkin
perch 24.75 ft3 # Masonry
puncheon 84 gal
+# Following units contributed 20011217 Thomas R Wyant III
+fifth 1|5 gallon
+magnum 2.5 fifth
+jeroboam 4 fifth
+rehoboam 7.5 fifth
+methuselah 10 fifth
+shalmanazar 14 fifth
+balthazar 20 fifth
+nebuchadnezzar 25 fifth
# Delightful British liquid volumes; they all begin with `brit'.
britfloz 28.41225 ml
kilderkin britkilderkin # kilderkin is British only
britbucket 4 britgal # That's `britbucket,' not `bit bucket'.
bucket britbucket # Buckets are brit only.
-britlast 2909.414 litres
+britlast 2909.414 liters
last britlast
# Dry volume
K Kelvin
Rankine 5|9 K # This is a very funny unit
Ra Rankine
-### TODO: allow addition aswell.
-#celsius Celsius
-#C Celsius
-#Celsius K+273.1
-#farenheit Farenheit
-#F Farenheit
# Amount of substance
mol mole
# which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite
# length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1m apart in
# vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2e-7
-# newtons per metre of length.
+# newtons per meter of length.
Ampere ampere
amp ampere
abampere 10 amps
Newton kg m/s2
newton Newton
N newton
-Nm newton-metre
dyne g cm/s2
grav 9.8 m/s2 # Acceleration due to gravity
gee grav
Pascal N/m2
pascal Pascal
Pa pascal
-hPa hectopascal
-atmosphere 1.01325 N/m2 # NIST 1990301 EXACT
+atmosphere 101325 N/m2 # NIST 20010518 EXACT
atm atmosphere
bar megadyne/cm2 # Implies `millibars'
-psi pound/inch/sec2
mercury 1|760 atm/mm # Implies `mm mercury' and `inches mercury'
hg mercury
torricelli mm hg
air 6.6083e-5 atm/foot # At 60 deg.F; Implies `feet air'
# Work and energy
-Joule newton-metre
+Joule newton-meter
joule Joule
J joule
-kJ kilojoule
footpound ft-lbf # foot-pound won't work, because `pound' is a mass
calorie 4.186 J
cal calorie
Watt J/sec
watt Watt
W Watt
-kW kiloWatt
-MW megaWatt
horsepower 550 ft-lbf/s
# Electric potential
# INFORMATION
byte 8 bits
+nybble half byte
kbyte 1024 bytes # `kilobyte' means 1000 bytes
# Don't use `K'; that's for Kelvins.
kb kbyte
hapenny half penny
twopence two pence
tuppence two pence
+thruppence 3 pence
+threepence 3 pence
+sixpence 6 pence
crown 5 shillings # Implies `half crown'
guinea 21 shillings
florin 2 shillings
+# 18th century French coinage. References:
+# http://home.nordnet.fr/~jlmorel/mesures.html and reverse-engineered
+# from The Three Musketeers
+# 20011227 Thomas R Wyant III
+livre franc ### 3 Musketeers has francs!
+ ### Now, you too can convert Louis d'Or to U.S. Dollars!
+sou 1|20 livre
+crown 3 livres # It's ecu in French, not to be confused with ECU.
+pistole 10 livres
+double 2 # 3 Musketeers refers to double pistoles, so ...
+louis 24 livres
+### Now if only I had good definitions for reals and doubloons ...
+
+
# For `register tons'
register 100 ft3/ton
registerton register ton
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