The Length of Perl

For the fellow monks that don't remember, some time ago I asked What is the Perl Color?, and got some interesting answers.

Today I was playing with 'units', a small program that makes big units conversions, and this is what I've found with my curiosity:

monsieur_champs:(1)$ units
1991 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 1 perl
You want: centimeters
        * 0.1880325
        / 5.3182296
You have: 1 perl 
You want: milimeters
        * 1.880325
        / 0.53182296
You have: 1 perl
You want: nanometers
        * 1880325
        / 5.3182296e-07
You have: 1 perl
You want: inches
        * 0.074028543
        / 13.508303
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Update: broquaint told me folks using the Dark Theme can't see the table. I dropped the background color to easy the look. Thank you, broquaint.

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Re: The Length of Perl by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 11, 2004 at 15:11 UTC
From `/usr/share/units.dat`: `# German type sizes nonplusultra 2 didotpoint brillant 3 didotpoint diamant 4 didotpoint perl 5 didotpoint nonpareille 6 didotpoint kolonel 7 didotpoint petit 8 didotpoint borgis 9 didotpoint korpus 10 didotpoint corpus korpus garamond korpus mittel 14 didotpoint tertia 16 didotpoint text 18 didotpoint kleine_kanon 32 didotpoint kanon 36 didotpoint grobe_kanon 42 didotpoint missal 48 didotpoint kleine_sabon 72 didotpoint grobe_sabon 84 didotpoint` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: The Length of Perl by jdtoronto (Prior) on Feb 12, 2004 at 15:36 UTC
Interesting Abigail-II, I will add that list to the list I have in my own notes. Typesetting and Typography have been my passion since teenage years. Whilst I claim no authority for this list, other than the fact that I have it, it might seem that the namings of the Anglo-Saxon point sizes use a different spelling for Pearl. Pearl 5 point Nonpareil 6 point Minion 7 point Brevier 8 point Bourgeois 9 point Long Primer 10 point Small Pica 11 point Pica 12 point English 14 point Two Line Brevier 16 point Great Primer 18 point Paragon 20 point Double small Pica 22 point Double Pica 24 point Double English 28 point Four line Brevier 32 point Double Great Primer 36 point Canon 48 point Of course 1 perl = 5 * 0.3759mm = 1.8795mm (the Didot point is 1/72 of the French Royal Inch which was 27.07mm) whereas... 1 pearl = 5 * 0.3514598mm = 1.7573mm (The ATA or Anglo-Saxon point is a little smaller). Of course, the now common in digital typesetting Postscript point is 1/72 of an inch, or approximately 0.3528mm, just to confuse the issue. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re: The Length of Perl by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 12, 2004 at 15:57 UTC
`You have: perl You want: ruby * 0.97273506 / 1.0280292` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: The Length of Perl by monsieur_champs (Curate) on Feb 12, 2004 at 18:53 UTC
Nice!! But even after hearing this confession and knowing more about Ruby, `units` is quite clear: Ruby is just 97.273506% of Perl... "In few words, translating PerlMonks documentation and best articles to other languages is like building a bridge to join other Perl communities into PerlMonks family. This makes the family bigger, the knowledge greater, the parties better and the life easier." -- monsieur_champs	[reply] [d/l]