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Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and
now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. Thanks, -- Blue Citizen |
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Blue Citizen wrote:
Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. How is the weather in Portugal? |
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It's raining and windy. I guess downthere you have nice weather. Meanwhile
I've downloaded a free unit converter. Can you recommend another calculator? Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. "Paul in Houston TX" escreveu na mensagem ... How is the weather in Portugal? |
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Blue Citizen wrote:
It's raining and windy. I guess downthere you have nice weather. Meanwhile I've downloaded a free unit converter. Can you recommend another calculator? Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. "Paul in Houston TX" escreveu na mensagem ... How is the weather in Portugal? Yes. Go he http://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/ That is the best unit converter calculator I have ever used. |
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 04:05:37 +0100, Blue Citizen wrote:
Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? 1. The newton (N) is a unit of force. In "type of unit", there is no option to select force. 2. Tonne is the metric ton (1000 kg). Like what is used in Europe. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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"Paul in Houston TX" wrote in message ... Blue Citizen wrote: It's raining and windy. I guess downthere you have nice weather. Meanwhile I've downloaded a free unit converter. Can you recommend another calculator? Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. "Paul in Houston TX" escreveu na mensagem ... How is the weather in Portugal? Yes. Go he http://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/ That is the best unit converter calculator I have ever used. +1! Plus you can add your own custom conversions if something you need isn't already there. -- SC Tom |
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Can you explain me how to add custom convertions?
Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. "SC Tom" escreveu na mensagem ... +1! Plus you can add your own custom conversions if something you need isn't already there. -- SC Tom |
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Blue Citizen wrote:
Can you explain me how to add custom convertions? Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? Hope you can help me. "SC Tom" escreveu na mensagem ... +1! Plus you can add your own custom conversions if something you need isn't already there. Options. |
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"Wolf K" wrote in message
... On 2016-04-02 23:05, Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? 1,000kg, aka as "metric ton" for them as can't spell. English "ton" is 2,000lb. "Long ton" is 2,200lb, or approximately 999kg. Interesting that you refer to the 2000 lb ton as the English ton, because that unit isn't used in England (or other parts of the UK) - instead we use 112 lb / cwt (hundredweight) and 20 cwt / ton - ie the 2240 lb ton. One of the big problems with the imperial system is that a unit with the same name (pint, gallon, ton) has different meanings in different countries (US versus UK) and even in different trades (avoirdupois versus troy). The other problem is that no two units for the same measurement (eg mass, length) are related by a power of ten; only by other integers such as 8, 12, 14, 16. Finally there is not even an integer relationship between length and volume units: eg between cubic inch and gallon. (*) (*) I needed to work out roughly how heavy a copper water cylinder would be when full of water. I only had an imperial tape measure. Measure diameter and length, and volume is pi r-squared l - but this gives volume in cubic inches and I only know that "a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter" ie that a gallon weighs 10 lb. How many cubic inches ina gallon - buggered if I know, even to an order of magnitude. I ended up converting lengths to centimetres (using 2.5 cm = 1 in approximation) and working out the volume in cc, and then the mass follows from knowing that 1000 cc weighs 1 kg. |
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"NY" wrote in message
... "Wolf K" wrote in message ... On 2016-04-02 23:05, Blue Citizen wrote: Hello you, today I was trying unit conversion with Windows Calculator and now it looks different. Can't find Newton unit, plus it shows new units I've never seen before, Tonne for example, do you know this unit? 1,000kg, aka as "metric ton" for them as can't spell. English "ton" is 2,000lb. "Long ton" is 2,200lb, or approximately 999kg. Interesting that you refer to the 2000 lb ton as the English ton, because that unit isn't used in England (or other parts of the UK) - instead we use 112 lb / cwt (hundredweight) and 20 cwt / ton - ie the 2240 lb ton. One of the big problems with the imperial system is that a unit with the same name (pint, gallon, ton) has different meanings in different countries (US versus UK) and even in different trades (avoirdupois versus troy). The other problem is that no two units for the same measurement (eg mass, length) are related by a power of ten; only by other integers such as 8, 12, 14, 16. Finally there is not even an integer relationship between length and volume units: eg between cubic inch and gallon. (*) (*) I needed to work out roughly how heavy a copper water cylinder would be when full of water. I only had an imperial tape measure. Measure diameter and length, and volume is pi r-squared l - but this gives volume in cubic inches and I only know that "a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter" ie that a gallon weighs 10 lb. How many cubic inches ina gallon - buggered if I know, even to an order of magnitude. I ended up converting lengths to centimetres (using 2.5 cm = 1 in approximation) and working out the volume in cc, and then the mass follows from knowing that 1000 cc weighs 1 kg. I should add, this was before the days of the internet, and I didn't have a calculator or any reference books - I was helping my dad renovate a cottage in the middle of nowhere and we wanted a rough estimate of the weight to judge whether a given baulk of wood would be strong enough to take the weight of the cylinder. |
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 17:04:46 +0100, "Blue Citizen"
wrote: Plus you can add your own custom conversions if something you need isn't already there. Everyone is waiting for the conversions of lead into gold and water into wine to be added. |
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On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:45:33 +0100, "NY" wrote:
(*) I needed to work out roughly how heavy a copper water cylinder would be when full of water. I only had an imperial tape measure. Measure diameter and length, and volume is pi r-squared l - but this gives volume in cubic inches and I only know that "a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter" ie that a gallon weighs 10 lb. How many cubic inches ina gallon - buggered if I know, even to an order of magnitude. I ended up converting lengths to centimetres (using 2.5 cm = 1 in approximation) and working out the volume in cc, and then the mass follows from knowing that 1000 cc weighs 1 kg. I just used convert.exe. It tool a fraction of a second to find out that there are 231 cubic inches in a gallon. |
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 04:41:48 +0100, Blue Citizen wrote:
How is the weather in Portugal? Someone in Portugal doesn't recognise the metric tonne? We're even using it on official docs in the UK. |
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:33:23 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
I just used convert.exe. It tool a fraction of a second to find out that there are 231 cubic inches in a gallon. English gallon or US? They are different. These conversions can trip people up very easily (as Wolf, above). |
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"Ken Blake" wrote in message
... On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:45:33 +0100, "NY" wrote: (*) I needed to work out roughly how heavy a copper water cylinder would be when full of water. I only had an imperial tape measure. Measure diameter and length, and volume is pi r-squared l - but this gives volume in cubic inches and I only know that "a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter" ie that a gallon weighs 10 lb. How many cubic inches ina gallon - buggered if I know, even to an order of magnitude. I ended up converting lengths to centimetres (using 2.5 cm = 1 in approximation) and working out the volume in cc, and then the mass follows from knowing that 1000 cc weighs 1 kg. I just used convert.exe. It tool a fraction of a second to find out that there are 231 cubic inches in a gallon. This was in the days before people had computers, the internet etc, and even calculators were just basic four-function ones, with no built-in conversion factors. http://www.metric-conversions.org/vo...ches-table.htm says that there are an integer number (231.0) of cubic inches in a US gallon, but http://www.metric-conversions.org/vo...ches-table.htm says that there a non-integer number (277.42) of cubic inches in a UK gallon. This is weird because I thought that a US pint was 16 fl oz and a UK pint was 20 fl oz (with 8 US/UK pints making a US/UK gallon) so I'd expect a ratio of exactly 16/20 = 4/5 between the two. I'd forgotten about the US habit of measuring dry goods by volume (US dry gallon) rather than by mass (pound) until I read other pages on that site, but then US recipes often specify quantities of flour, marg and dried fruit in cups (ie volume) rather than in ounces (mass). I presume there mist be a "standard" cup of some well-known capacity in fl oz or cu in, in order to match items such as eggs which are specified by number ("three standard-sized eggs") rather than by measured units. |
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