Posts Tagged ‘math’

Google like unit conversion on the console

4th December
2008
written by Nick Anderson

For those of you who are horrid at math like I am googles unit conversion is a great help. Want to know how many GB 1Mbps is in a month? Simple just ask google. Well I like to have the ability even when I am not online and I found units. Its in the debian repository and oh so easy to use.

units -t '1Mbps' 'GB/month'
328.71798
units -t '1hour' 'seconds'
3600
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Use bc for command line math

7th February
2008
written by Nick Anderson

BC is a great math library. Its extremely flexible and can be easily used in scripts.
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