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I came across this prolem at work, you can't calculate an area in feet using a calculator! You can't find the square route of 12 feet using a calculator, you can't work out anything remotely imperial!. The calculator in windows has a binary and hexidecimal number system, which no-one uses, surley we
can replace it with an imperial calculator?
[useless guy anon]
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Surely this idea works against the whole ethos of the imperial system. You should only be able to work these problems out using a pencil and paper in traditional fashion. Electronic aids are for mental weaklings. |
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Well. Dr Bob, that does of course explain why you are using an electronic computer! |
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[Ready chipped, a newe flavour from the fish shop] |
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Peter, most of the stuff i write is pretty boring, so my insane comments at the bottom of my half bakes are just to ad a bit of insane humour and largely i like to use square brackets. |
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{time for a change, methinks} |
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if you take the squareroot of 12 on the calculator, that'll give you how many feet it is. Converting the decimal feet into inches shouldn't be that difficult. |
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I agree with MuddDog, there's no reason a normal calculator can't be used for calculations in imperial (or american) units; I've done it many times. |
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It would be handy to have a calculator that automatically keps track of units, so you could say "I want this in furlongs" and it would multiply by the correct factor. But that's a different idea (and baked, though perhaps not in a $19 drugstore device.) |
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Calculators operate on numbers. How is a number of an Imperial measure any different from a number of a metric measure?
According to my calculator, root 12 is 3.464101615.
[wiml]: You can add furlongs to whatever other linear measure you want. You just need to know the conversion factors (or have a calculator that incorporates them, as mine does). |
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// The calculator in windows has a binary and hexidecimal number system, which no-one uses // |
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*cough* *nervously raises hand* I do. |
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It's much better at binary <--> hex <--> decimal conversions than I am: I can do it mentally, but not as quickly or accurately. |
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You can take the octal mode, though: I've never *once* seen a constant in octal that wasn't a programmer error... |
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