Template:Unit of length

[edit] Template documentation

The template will convert a length in metres to various other units. It uses the {{#expr:}} parser to convert.

[edit] Usage

{{Unit of length
|name= 
|m= 
|accuracy=
|nocat=
}}

name=unit name (optional, defaulting to the article's page name)
m=distance of unit in metres
accuracy=number of significant figures (optional, default = 5)
nocat=to not add the page to Category:Units of length type " nocat= "

The resulting conversion will occur from the metre representation only. Any number larger than 10000 or smaller than 0.1 will be represented in Engineering notation, i.e. ×10 raised to a multiple of 3.

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