On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:06:49PM +0100, tarquin wrote:
Delirium wrote:
>On a mildly more on-topic note, there was some discussion earlier of
>some sort of automatic translation of units based on user preferences
[...]
The problem would be one of context. You don't
want "3-mile Island" to
be converted!
Unlikely.
<wiki>My tool is [[unit:inch:12.4]] long.</wiki>
Renders "My tool is 12.4 inch long." and "My tool is 29.88 cm long.",
depeding on my settings. (With natural IQ, like write 23.5 km instead of
2350000 cm, etc.)
Syntax was just an example, not even a suggestion.
But frankly,
*WHO* can visualize "Lake Titicaca has a volume of 300,000,000 litres?
Easy. Just imagine 500 billion glass of beer...
:-)
grin
ps: ...which reminds me to write an international beer-to-lake converter...