Date: 10 Jul 2002 15:15:15 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.lib Message-ID: <xzplm8jg1wc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <200207100913.g6A9DgKX009215@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpr8ibhmlb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
> I don't feel obligued to do that. It's getting a bikeshed discussion.
> The currency rates have been here for many years, and nobody ever
> cared about them. Now that i fix a single rate, people start
> yelling -- no, i won't remove them alltogether.
You didn't fix anything. You just taught units(1) to give a
*different* incorrect answer to six decimal places:
You have: 1 dollar
You want: euro
* 1.010101
/ 0.99
all fine and dandy, except today's rate is 1.0115, and last Friday it
was 1.03, and tomorrow's rate will be something else again, and next
month it might be 0.95 or it might be 1.15, who knows? And you still
insist this is meaningful?
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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