Ultimate Calculator

[BettaBeGood]

Just tried out the Ultimate Calculator and it's bonkers!


I tried using metric measurements, exact to within a mm, and it gave me wildly innacurate results for capacity - it over evaluated my capacity by almost 10 gallons. It gave me a reading of 29.9 UK gallons - this is not right! US gallons maybe, but not UK.


I tried again using good old inches and it came out 99% spot on.


What the smeg is wrong with the stupid thing?

[Aiptasia]

Make sure you're setting it to UK gallons first, then do the math in centimeters vs. inches and let us know if you get a discrepancy. Show your work.

[Firestar's Evil Twin]

Oh, just switch completely to metric and be done with it. 

(And while you're at it, doncha think it's time to lose "stone" as a measure of weight?  Drove me bananas while I was living across the pond.  As did "half three", and calling dinner/supper "tea", and the way no one has a clothes dryer, and saying "lemonade" when you mean Sprite, but those are a whole other cup of tea.)

edit:  I was curious and a little bored, so I did some calculations of my own.  Ultimate Calculator has Imperial gallons and US gallons mixed up.  BBG, if you must know the amount in British, just choose US gallons for now.

[Clint]

 

Ultimate Calculator has Imperial gallons and US gallons mixed up.

If you are sure about this I will fix it. I didn't write this script but we are using it with permission.

How much is a "stone" anyway?

And whats a quid, bob, pence etc, makes no pense whatsoever.

[dalto]

If you are sure about this I will fix it. I didn't write this script but we are using it with permission.

Yes, it is backwards.  Has been that for as long as I can remember.

[BettaBeGood]

If you are sure about this I will fix it. I didn't write this script but we are using it with permission.

How much is a "stone" anyway?

And whats a quid, bob, pence etc, makes no pense whatsoever.

Just tried again, US and UK gallons are backwards


A Stone is fourteen Pounds and a Pound is sixteen Ounces

A Quid is also a Pound but in monetary terms and equivalent to the American Dollar in like for like terms.

A Bob is a slang term for One Shilling (our pre-decimal currency and equates to 5 new pence)

A Pence (or Penny using the proper terminology) is 1/100 of a Pound (or Quid in slang). It is the equivalent of the American Cent in like for like terms.

[QueenFisher]

Oh, just switch completely to metric and be done with it. 

If you want us to come to the darkside, you need at least need to offer cookies. ;P

Cool, I learned something new today. (:

[Clint]

Hokay, try it now

[Firestar's Evil Twin]

Looks proper to me.

(A sidenote that BBG might find somewhat amusing... the first time I had to make a call to some automated service in the UK, I was instructed to enter my card number and press the hash key.  I was so confused that I had to hang up and ask people what the hash key was.   But I guess now that I think about it, if the Brits referred to # as the pound sign, it would get confused with £ or lb.  Although I do know that # is sometimes used as a symbol for pound as a unit of weight.)

[BettaBeGood]

Funny that


Over here, the hash key (#) is often used to replace the word 'number' in industry.


For instance, instead of writing 'number 1, number 2, number 3, and so on, they become #1, #2, #3 etc.