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Sat Jun 17 03:08:57 UTC 2006

> No, that's wrong.
>
> $ units
> 2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
>
> You have: watt
> You want: btu
> conformability error
>        1 kg m^2 / s^3
>        1055.0559 kg m^2 / s^2
> You have: watt hour
> You want: btu
>        * 3.4121416
>        / 0.29307107

Agreed, my math should have said "btu/hr", which is what any HVAC system 
is rated in -- how many btus in an hour it can remove.

I apologize for the horrendous error, but all of the math stands.

Just sed s/btu/btu\/hr/g

(also, you can do from watt to btu/hr with the same 3.413 multiplier)

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