Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!nmt.edu!khbsnsr From: khbsnsr@nmt.edu (Kenneth Brunell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: temperature conversion Message-ID: <1991Jan24.014724.15552@nmt.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 01:47:24 GMT References: <2D042619A000047E@gacvx1.gac.edu> Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Lines: 31 In article <2D042619A000047E@gacvx1.gac.edu> U5513172@NMSUVM1.BITNET (Thomas L. Baca) writes: >Hello fellow HP-users, I have what may be a silly question, but I >shall ask anyway. WhenI add 25_'C ( read degree Celcius) and 1_'F >on my HP 48SX, I get an answer of 537.67_'F. What terribly simple thing >am I overlooking? My wife tells me that the answer looks like Rankins >(sp?). Why is this happening? I heard someone say that they asked HP >about it and got a fix. However, I don't really know if this guy knew >what he was talking about. I've never seen a reference to this >phenomenom, so I'm inclined to believe that the problem is not really a >problem. > >I would appreciate any help on this. >Thanks in advance. > >Thomas L. Baca >NMSU Yes, it does return the answer in degrees rankine. I just tried it. If you add degrees celsius to degrees farenheit, it returns the answer in degrees kelvin. In either case, it does not change the units accordingly. It must be a bug. Apparently it neglects to convert back to the units it is supposed to output in. -Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ , __ _ _ | "It's green . . ." | | ' ) / / ) // // | Mr. Scott | | /-< _ ____ /--< __ . . ____ _ // // | | | / ) | | ===============================================================================