(11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
04-09-2018, 02:47 PM
Post: #1
 Michael Zinn Member Posts: 56 Joined: Mar 2018
(11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
2 converter program for popular German units of area measurement.

Program A converts Saarlands to Fußballfelds.

Program B converts Fußballfelds to Saarlands.

(There is no way to convert to Metric or Imperial, why would you ever want to do that?)

Code:
; Convert Saarlands to Fußballfelds LBL A   3   6   EEX   4   *   RTN ; Convert Fußballfelds to Saarlands LBL B   3   6   EEX   4   /   RTN
04-09-2018, 07:19 PM
Post: #2
 Dieter Senior Member Posts: 2,397 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: (11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
(04-09-2018 02:47 PM)michaelzinn Wrote:  Program A converts Saarlands to Fußballfelds.
Program B converts Fußballfelds to Saarlands.

Maybe you should explain this to our non-German readers. ;-)

By the way: one "Fußballfeld" is mostly used to illustrate an area of 1 hectare (10.000 m²). Sure, the field itself usually is smaller, but the idea is to have a handy comparison. Based on this fact and the Saarland's area being 2570 km² a conversion factor of 257.000 may be more appropriate.

Dieter
04-10-2018, 01:48 PM
Post: #3
 Michael Zinn Member Posts: 56 Joined: Mar 2018
RE: (11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
(04-09-2018 07:19 PM)Dieter Wrote:
(04-09-2018 02:47 PM)michaelzinn Wrote:  Program A converts Saarlands to Fußballfelds.
Program B converts Fußballfelds to Saarlands.

Maybe you should explain this to our non-German readers. ;-)

By the way: one "Fußballfeld" is mostly used to illustrate an area of 1 hectare (10.000 m²). Sure, the field itself usually is smaller, but the idea is to have a handy comparison. Based on this fact and the Saarland's area being 2570 km² a conversion factor of 257.000 may be more appropriate.

Dieter

Interesting! I didn't know that a Fußballfeld is just an alias for hectare when used as an area of measurement. That makes it even more confusing.
04-10-2018, 06:09 PM
Post: #4
 Dieter Senior Member Posts: 2,397 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: (11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
(04-10-2018 01:48 PM)michaelzinn Wrote:  Interesting! I didn't know that a Fußballfeld is just an alias for hectare when used as an area of measurement. That makes it even more confusing.

Well, that's at least a common way of visualizing hectares. Here the term "entspricht einer Größe von fünf Fußballfeldern" simply is a translation of "5 Hektar". But also take a look at Wikipedia. So a hectare fits very well if you consider the whole area inside the 400 m track.

By the way – if I remember correctly you once said you like "vintage programming", and in another thread you asked for traditional solutions to overcome the limits of simple programmable calculators. So maybe you will also like this idea:

The 11C/15C has is only a limited number of labels. More important, it can only display numbers, there is no text output. Now... did [A] convert from Saarlands to Fußballfelds or was it the other way round? Here is a simple trick: since areas cannot be negative the sign may be used to flag a result. This way both conversions can be done with one single program:

Code:
LBL A x<0?   (TEST 2) 1/x 3 6 EEX 4 x x<0?   (TEST 2) 1/x CHS RTN

Rule: Saarlands are positive, Fußballfelds are negative.
Want it the other way round? Replace x<0? with x>0?.

Convert 2 Saarlands: 2 [A] => –720.000
Since the result is negative you know that these are 720.000 Fußballfelds.

Convert one Million Fußballfelds: –1.000.000 [A] => 2,7778
Since the result is positive you know that these are 2,8 Saarlands.

Pressing [A] multiple times switches between the two units:
2
[A] => –720.000
[A] => 2
[A] => –720.000
[A] => 2
...

So the area is 2 Saarlands or 720.000 Fußballfelds.

Dieter
04-10-2018, 06:59 PM
Post: #5
 Michael Zinn Member Posts: 56 Joined: Mar 2018
RE: (11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
(04-10-2018 06:09 PM)Dieter Wrote:
(04-10-2018 01:48 PM)michaelzinn Wrote:  Interesting! I didn't know that a Fußballfeld is just an alias for hectare when used as an area of measurement. That makes it even more confusing.

Well, that's at least a common way of visualizing hectares. Here the term "entspricht einer Größe von fünf Fußballfeldern" simply is a translation of "5 Hektar". But also take a look at Wikipedia. So a hectare fits very well if you consider the whole area inside the 400 m track.

By the way – if I remember correctly you once said you like "vintage programming", and in another thread you asked for traditional solutions to overcome the limits of simple programmable calculators. So maybe you will also like this idea:

The 11C/15C has is only a limited number of labels. More important, it can only display numbers, there is no text output. Now... did [A] convert from Saarlands to Fußballfelds or was it the other way round? Here is a simple trick: since areas cannot be negative the sign may be used to flag a result. This way both conversions can be done with one single program:

Code:
LBL A x<0?   (TEST 2) 1/x 3 6 EEX 4 x x<0?   (TEST 2) 1/x CHS RTN

Rule: Saarlands are positive, Fußballfelds are negative.
Want it the other way round? Replace x<0? with x>0?.

Convert 2 Saarlands: 2 [A] => –720.000
Since the result is negative you know that these are 720.000 Fußballfelds.

Convert one Million Fußballfelds: –1.000.000 [A] => 2,7778
Since the result is positive you know that these are 2,8 Saarlands.

Pressing [A] multiple times switches between the two units:
2
[A] => –720.000
[A] => 2
[A] => –720.000
[A] => 2
...

So the area is 2 Saarlands or 720.000 Fußballfelds.

Dieter

Ah, you are using the sign as an additional input parameter. Great idea!
04-10-2018, 08:15 PM
Post: #6
 Dieter Senior Member Posts: 2,397 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: (11C) (15C) Convert German Units of Area Measurement
(04-10-2018 06:59 PM)michaelzinn Wrote:  Ah, you are using the sign as an additional input parameter.

It flags both input and output.

(04-10-2018 06:59 PM)michaelzinn Wrote:  Great idea!

But not really a new one. ;-)

Dieter
 « Next Oldest | Next Newest »

User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)