Good free calculator/unit converter (Ad Free)}

[funkylogik]

Can anyone recommend one that has a simple calculator and currency, temperature, weight etc converter?
Its not something ill use enough to pay for but theres a problem in my rom with ad supported apps and the app ive used for ages, having ads, is now unusable
Cheers :beer:
(I know google now does conversions but id like it in a stand alone app)

 

[gtbarry]

Convertbee (it is the replacement for Unify). As clean as it gets

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.convertbee

 

[GrouchoM]

Unit Converter

 

[funkylogik]

Thanks peeps. Ill download both and try them the next time i have to work out what the crazy americans are talkin about with their quaint old imperial "quarts" and "Fahrenheit" lol :-D

 

[electricpete]

We are converting to metric, inch by inch...

 

[funkylogik]

Lmao. At 2 km/p/h :thumbup:

 

[jhawkkw]

Granted I use the premium because it contains a couple extra features like fractions and what not, but the free version of RealCalc is pretty awesome in it's own right.

However currency conversion is trickier because it's dynamic and always changing.

 

[gtbarry]

It's called the US Customary System and we are one of only three nations left on the planet to use it. USA, Liberia and Myanmar/Burma.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-g.html

Though honestly, the US Customary System was standardized on the metric measurements so, we kind of use the metric system. We just call different lengths of it by different names.

 

[dvhttn]

Thanks peeps. Ill download both and try them the next time i have to work out what the crazy americans are talkin about with their quaint old imperial "quarts" and "Fahrenheit" lol :-D

You're obviously too young to have been brought on on imperial units, or to remember counting out pounds, shillings and pence. It's dead easy. 1609m to the mile, 1m just over a yard (or 3' 3"), 2.2lbs to the kg, etc etc

I use ... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.udell.convertor ... so no ads though.

Dave

 

[jonbanjo]

Thanks peeps. Ill download both and try them the next time i have to work out what the crazy americans are talkin about with their quaint old imperial "quarts" and "Fahrenheit" lol :-D

I'm just a confused mess with units. I think of some things in imperial and others in metric and wish we (UK) had just changed over completely when I was a child...

Btw. take care with liquid measures. 1 US pint = 0.83 Imperial pints.

 

[gtbarry]

This is a great podcast covering why the USA isn't on the International System of Units (a.k.a. metric system) and how the United States customary system (based on “Imperial Units") is actually standardized on metric.

Why isn’t the U.S. on the metric system?

 

[funkylogik]

Lol this thread has got interesting ill give that podcast a listen in bed.
I was born in '75 so im the same as Jonbanjo where i think of some things in metric and some things imperial. I judge long distance by miles but shorter as M, CM, MM etc. Liquid i think of in pints (UK) if its lager (beer) but litres if its vodka lol i think of human weight in stones but i cant get my head around pounds like the americans use for some reason. Im 11stone so how many pounds am i? (Havent downloaded the apps yet lol)

 

[dvhttn]

... Im 11stone so how many pounds am i? (Havent downloaded the apps yet lol)

The way my 9 year old would work it out would be (14x10) + (1x14) = ?? *

* I'll leave the rest to your calculator ....

Dave

 

[funkylogik]

The way my 9 year old would work it out would be (14x10) + (1x14) = ?? *

* I'll leave the rest to your calculator ....

Dave

Something wrong with your formula lol... there isnt an "X" to enter my weight in stones. Ask your kid

surely its Xx(amount of pounds in a stone)

EDIT doh im so stupid lol. So theres 14lb in a stone?

 

[dvhttn]

Something wrong with your formula lol... there isnt an "X" to enter my weight in stones. Ask your kid ...

I was trying to make it easy to work it out via some mental arithmetic ... 10x14 = 140 + 1x14 = 154 ... There is a reasonable argument that mathematics ability in UK kids started to drop off about the time we went over to metric measures and decimalisation. Trouble is now, where the argument was that it was much easier to divide/multiply by 10 (rather than 16ozs to the pound, 14lbs in a stone, etc etc) now we have a generation of kids that can't even do that!

... EDIT doh im so stupid lol. So theres 14lb in a stone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit) ... :thumb:

Dave