CVS commit: src/usr.bin/units

["David A. Holland" <dholland%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   dholland
Date:           Mon Oct 24 05:04:51 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/units: units.lib

Log Message:
units.lib: fix "surveyfoot" and kill off "british".

The US survey foot is defined as 1200/3937 of a meter, whereas the
ordinary international foot is 0.3048 meter. These are almost, but
not quite the same.

Define the survey foot this way instead of defining an adjective unit
for the conversion, which is much less confusing even if the adjective
unit had a reasonable name. For the time being the fact that it was
called "british" remains thoroughly obscure.


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cvs rdiff -u -r1.27 -r1.28 src/usr.bin/units/units.lib

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