Package: units
Version: 1.85-3
Severity: normal
Hi,
I noticed something weird, acres are treating feet and survey feet backwards
as far as I can tell. According to my copy of Glover's Pocket Ref 2nd ed. it
should be 640 acres in a sq mile exactly.
$ echo $LANG
C
$ units '1 acre' 'mile^2'
* 0.0015625063
/ 639.99744
$ units '1 usacre' 'mile^2'
* 0.0015625063
/ 639.99744
$ units '1 intacre' 'mile^2'
* 0.0015625
/ 640
/usr/share/misc/units.dat has:
# Localisation
#
!locale en_US
....
acre usacre
acrefoot usacrefoot
but usacre is aliased to 10 surveychain^2 and usacrefoot to surveyfoot.
the default foot in the US is not the survey foot, so it is odd that
the default acre is set to use survey feet.
or it could be that I've been staring at this too long and I'm missing
the intention.
export LANG=en_US # doesn't help (I am in New Zealand)
??
thanks,
Hamish
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