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Please take this up with upstream (to whom the bug has been long since
forwarded). I'll go along with whatever Adrian decides.
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> This is not a bug. It is normal behavior.
No, it's a bug. Basing the conversion coefficient on the user's locale
is awful enough, but also US Survey Foot is no longer used by most states
in the US since some decades ago. Maybe 11 of 50 still have it on the
books in their
Try this:
toncho /~ units
You have: USmile^2
You want: acre
* 640
/ 0.0015625
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This looks correct to me.
usacre = 10 surveychain^2
surveychain = 66 surveyft
surveyft = 1200/3937 meter
10*(66*1200/3937)^2) = 4046.8726098410
1 mile^2 = 2589988.1 meter
2589988.1/4046.8726098410 = 639.9974374537
Note that the surveyfoot is .3048006096 meter while the standard foot is
.3048 me
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'
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