1pu(1)                       General Commands Manual                      pu(1)
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NAME

6       physicalunits  -  encodes  and  de-codes  physical units a according to
7       ISO/IEEE 11073-10101:2004 Tables A6.1 and A6.3
8         physicalunits was formerly also known under "pu".
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SYNOPSIS

12         physicalunits [units_or_codes]
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DESCRIPTION

16       The output returns the <physical  unit>:<TAB><decimal  code><TAB><hexa‐
17       decimal code><TAB><scaling><TAB><physical unit w/o prefix>, where <TAB>
18       represents the character ascii(9)
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Examples:

22         Encoding of "microVolts", using text representation, decimal encoding
23       and hexadecimal encoding:
24         physicalunits mV
25               uV     4275 0x10b3    1e-06     V
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27         physicalunits 4275
28               uV     4275 0x10b3    1e-06     V
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30         physicalunits 0x10b3
31               uV     4275 0x10b3    1e-06     V
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33         Text representation containing spaces need to be quoted
34         physicalunits "kg l-1"
35               kg l-1 2051 0x0803    1000 g l-1
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37         A list of units can be converted using multiple input arguments
38         physicalunits mV nA 4180 kg dag degree rpm "mol mol-1" "kg l-1"
39               mV     4274 0x10b2    0.001     V
40               nA     4180 0x1054    1e-09     A
41               nA     4180 0x1054    1e-09     A
42               kg     1731 0x06c3    1000 g
43               dag    1729 0x06c1    10   g
44               degree 736  0x02e0    1    degree
45               rpm    6816 0x1aa0    1    rpm
46               mol mol-1   864  0x0360    1    mol mol-1
47               kg l-1 2051 0x0803    1000 g l-1
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49          physicalunits `seq 0 65535` |grep -v nan |grep -v null
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AUTHOR

54       Alois Schloegl
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REPORTING BUGS

58       Report bugs to <biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net>
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62       Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Alois Schloegl License GPLv3+:  GNU GPL version
63       3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This  is  free  software:
64       you   are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to
65       the extent permitted by law.
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RESOURCES

69       https://biosig.sourceforge.io
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