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diff --git a/math/units/DESCR b/math/units/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..60a5cdb41eb --- /dev/null +++ b/math/units/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +GNU Units can convert quantities expressed in one unit to an equivalent in a +difference scale. Compared to traditional BSD implementations, it offers more +units, non-linear conversions (e.g. between degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit), a +more lenient input parser, and tab completion. It can also be used to perform +calculations taking physical units into account, and provide the definitions of +units (e.g. "joule = N m = 1 kg m^2 / s^2"). |