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

.SH SYNOPSIS
  physicalunits [units_or_codes]

.SH DESCRIPTION
The output returns the <physical unit>:<TAB><decimal code><TAB><hexadecimal code><TAB><scaling><TAB><physical unit w/o prefix>, where <TAB> represents the character ascii(9)

.SH Examples:
  Encoding of "microVolts", using text representation, decimal encoding and hexadecimal encoding:
  physicalunits mV
        uV	4275	0x10b3	1e-06	V

  physicalunits 4275
        uV	4275	0x10b3	1e-06	V

  physicalunits 0x10b3
        uV	4275	0x10b3	1e-06	V

  Text representation containing spaces need to be quoted
  physicalunits "kg l-1"
        kg l-1	2051	0x0803	1000	g l-1

  A list of units can be converted using multiple input arguments
  physicalunits mV nA 4180 kg dag degree rpm "mol mol-1" "kg l-1"
        mV	4274	0x10b2	0.001	V
        nA	4180	0x1054	1e-09	A
        nA	4180	0x1054	1e-09	A
        kg	1731	0x06c3	1000	g
        dag	1729	0x06c1	10	g
        degree	736	0x02e0	1	degree
        rpm	6816	0x1aa0	1	rpm
        mol mol-1	864	0x0360	1	mol mol-1
        kg l-1	2051	0x0803	1000	g l-1

   physicalunits `seq 0 65535` |grep -v nan |grep -v null
        shows s complete table of defined units

.SH AUTHOR
Alois Schloegl

.SH REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net>

.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Alois Schloegl
License GPLv3+:  GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

.SH RESOURCES
https://biosig.sourceforge.io