I'm wondering what I might add to www.fast-math.org that would help in
home repair. I'm thinking pressures, such as bars and pounds-per-
square inch, might be good. What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.
Thanks,
- Jeff -

javawizard wrote:
....
[..conversions...] What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.

My primary shortcoming on conversions is from "do" to "done" -- got
anything for that one?

--

I keep the ESB conversion utility on my desktop at all times.
It is one of the first things I install after a new system is up and
running.
check it out; http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm


On Oct 11, 12:17 pm, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering what I might add towww.fast-math.orgthat would help in
home repair. I'm thinking pressures, such as bars and pounds-per-
square inch, might be good. What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.
Thanks,
- Jeff -

Eric in North TX wrote:
I keep the ESB conversion utility on my desktop at all times.
It is one of the first things I install after a new system is up and
running.
check it out; http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm


On Oct 11, 12:17 pm, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering what I might add towww.fast-math.orgthat would help in
home repair. I'm thinking pressures, such as bars and pounds-per-
square inch, might be good. What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.


Many thanks, the acre feet could be most useful. In the past, I've often
had to convert various rainfall figures from Imperial to SI and reverse.
This should be useful - though someone's law will say that I won't have
to use it until I've forgotten that I have the facility available! ;(

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT, "clot" wrote:

Eric in North TX wrote:
I keep the ESB conversion utility on my desktop at all times.
It is one of the first things I install after a new system is up and
running.
check it out; http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm


On Oct 11, 12:17 pm, javawizard wrote:
I'm wondering what I might add towww.fast-math.orgthat would help in
home repair. I'm thinking pressures, such as bars and pounds-per-
square inch, might be good. What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.


Many thanks, the acre feet could be most useful. In the past, I've often
had to convert various rainfall figures from Imperial to SI and reverse.
This should be useful - though someone's law will say that I won't have
to use it until I've forgotten that I have the facility available! ;(

Google has a pretty damn good one.
It can convert cm to lightyears to feet.

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT, "clot" wrote:


Many thanks, the acre feet could be most useful. In the past, I've often
had to convert various rainfall figures from Imperial to SI and reverse.
This should be useful - though someone's law will say that I won't have
to use it until I've forgotten that I have the facility available! ;(


Here is another hardly used one, but I would doubt you could find the
conversion anywhere else.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...y+in+secon ds

1 century = 3.1556926 × 10^9 seconds

"javawizard" wrote in message
ups.com...
I'm wondering what I might add to www.fast-math.org that would help in
home repair. I'm thinking pressures, such as bars and pounds-per-
square inch, might be good. What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.
Thanks,
- Jeff -

I use Convert from http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/ Does
everything I need and is customizable.

RLM wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:59:24 +0000, Eric in North TX wrote:

I keep the ESB conversion utility on my desktop at all times.
It is one of the first things I install after a new system is up and
running.
check it out; http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm


If you use Linux, bring up a terminal. Type "units", press enter.

Isn't Linux that knock-off of a 40-year old operating system designed by a
money-losing division of your local telephone company and enhanced by geeks
to whom the DOS command line was not obtuse enough?

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:57:31 -0500, dpb wrote:

javawizard wrote:
...
[..conversions...] What else? Let me know if you have any
thoughts about that.

My primary shortcoming on conversions is from "do" to "done" -- got
anything for that one?

done = do + 1. If that still doesn't work, most likely someone is
stealing your time. Contact local law enforcement agencies

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:54 -0400, Terry
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT, "clot" wrote:


Many thanks, the acre feet could be most useful. In the past, I've often
had to convert various rainfall figures from Imperial to SI and reverse.
This should be useful - though someone's law will say that I won't have
to use it until I've forgotten that I have the facility available! ;(


Here is another hardly used one, but I would doubt you could find the
conversion anywhere else.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...y+in+secon ds

1 century = 3.1556926 × 10^9 seconds

I often do stuff like that. It was originally something to fill up the
long boring periods at work.

1 minute = 60 seconds
1 hour = 3.6 kiloseconds (3600 sec, 3.6KS)
1 day = 86.4KS
1 week = 604.8KS
1 month (30 days) = 2.59MS (2.59 megaseconds)
1 year (average year) = 31.5MS
1 decade = 315MS
1 century = 3.15GS (gigaseconds)
1 millennium = 31.5GS
--
74 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligable. Early
in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:54 -0400, Terry
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT, "clot" wrote:

Many thanks, the acre feet could be most useful. In the past, I've often
had to convert various rainfall figures from Imperial to SI and reverse.
This should be useful - though someone's law will say that I won't have
to use it until I've forgotten that I have the facility available! ;(

Here is another hardly used one, but I would doubt you could find the
conversion anywhere else.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...y+in+secon ds

1 century = 3.1556926 × 10^9 seconds

I often do stuff like that. It was originally something to fill up the
long boring periods at work.

1 minute = 60 seconds
1 hour = 3.6 kiloseconds (3600 sec, 3.6KS)
1 day = 86.4KS
1 week = 604.8KS
1 month (30 days) = 2.59MS (2.59 megaseconds)
1 year (average year) = 31.5MS
1 decade = 315MS
1 century = 3.15GS (gigaseconds)
1 millennium = 31.5GS



Reminds me of time I worked summers as a toll collector. When people
would ask me how far it was to the race track, I'd give them the answer
in furlongs

Frank

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:57:51 -0400, Frank
frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:54 -0400, Terry
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:19:00 GMT, "clot" wrote:

Many thanks, the acre feet could be most useful. In the past, I've often
had to convert various rainfall figures from Imperial to SI and reverse.
This should be useful - though someone's law will say that I won't have
to use it until I've forgotten that I have the facility available! ;(

Here is another hardly used one, but I would doubt you could find the
conversion anywhere else.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...y+in+secon ds

1 century = 3.1556926 × 10^9 seconds

I often do stuff like that. It was originally something to fill up the
long boring periods at work.

1 minute = 60 seconds
1 hour = 3.6 kiloseconds (3600 sec, 3.6KS)
1 day = 86.4KS
1 week = 604.8KS
1 month (30 days) = 2.59MS (2.59 megaseconds)
1 year (average year) = 31.5MS
1 decade = 315MS
1 century = 3.15GS (gigaseconds)
1 millennium = 31.5GS



Reminds me of time I worked summers as a toll collector. When people
would ask me how far it was to the race track, I'd give them the answer
in furlongs

Frank

How about in varas? A lot of old land deeds in Texas give distances in
varas. It's a Spanish unit about the same length as a meter.
--
74 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligable. Early
in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
-- Benjamin Franklin

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:56:19 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

How about in varas? A lot of old land deeds in Texas give distances in
varas. It's a Spanish unit about the same length as a meter.

I tried Google just to see. That is not one Google does.

One reason might be "Vara Measurements differ by locality:"(but not by
much)

http://www.ghostseekers.com/Conversions.htm

Give em a cubit and they'll take a furlong.

RLM wrote:
snip

If you use Linux, bring up a terminal. Type "units", press enter.

Used it today to figure out how many tsp.(teaspoons) of oil to add to a
pint of gas for a 50:1 fuel ratio for new gas string trimmer.


Kewl. Works in Mac OS X Tiger, too.

How many chains in a furlong? I disremember.

PB