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ConvertAll Portable 0.4.2 Released
Submitted by Travis Carrico on October 23, 2008 - 11:33am
 ConvertAll Portable 0.4.2 has been released. It's the handy ConvertAll unit converter packaged as a portable app, so you can do your unit conversions on the go. It has all the same great features of ConvertAll including easy unit selection and ability to combine over 400 units for conversions. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Read on for more details...
Features
- The base units for conversion may be either typed (with auto-completion) or selected from a list.
- Units may be selected using either an abbreviation or a full name.
- Units may be combined with the "*" and "/" operators.
- Units may be raised to powers with the "^" operator.
- Units with non-linear scales, such as temperature, can also be converted.
- A unit list may be filtered and searched.
- Numbers may be entered on either the "From" or the "To" units side, for conversions in both directions.
- Basic mathematical expressions may be entered in place of numbers.
- Options control the formatting of numerical results.
- The unit data includes over 400 units.
- The format of the unit data file makes it easy to add additional units.
Learn more about ConvertAll...
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
ConvertAll Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
ConvertAll Portable is available for immediate download from the ConvertAll Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Thanks
Thanks for your work on this, Travis.
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All seems Good
Download, install, run, settings saved, all went well
Good job Travis
Looks like a nice addition to the collection
Tim
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ditto
thanks Travis!
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ditto
thanx for the work on it.
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Thanks ;)
Thanks
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Developing: Lincity-NG, LMarbles, WinHTTrack, Gourmet, and NVDA Portable
Educational?
This should be in the Education category.
nope
not really. i mean i guess you could memorize conversion learn from it that way, but it is a tool or Utility in the same way a calculator is
Calculators aren't utilities.
Calculators are used in virtually every school. Unit conversion is taught in school as well.
To me, utilities are things like disk defrag and resource tweaking.
Auto Currency Update
Is it possible to get this program to automatically update currencies ?
no
it doesn't convert currency, only units of measurement
C -> F ok but F -> C = 5.6843419E-014
Nice program!
However, when I convert from Farenheit to Celcius 32F degrees give a result of 5.6843419E-014.
C to F gives 32.
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well e-14 means it's 0.000000000000056843419 . which is pretty much zero. not sure but i'm guessing that's the precise conversion, but we just say 32F is 0C just to make it an easy round number.
Tc = (5/9)*(Tf-32)
Tc = (5/9)*(Tf-32)
You're not sure, you're guessing, you're guessing wrongly. The calculation is imprecise according to the definition. This app should improve its' rounding.
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Problem Found
Awesome tool, however, it doesn't convert everything correctly. EX. Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice-versa is wrong.
there's no problem
no, it's not wrong. if you read the explanation i gave right above your post you'll see that "e-14" means move the decimal place 14 decimals to the left which makes it practically 0; it's just more precise answer than a rounded "0".
in the future, post these sort of problems in the forums.
LOL
Fine enough but I gotta go with DreymaR, improve your rounding. A precise answer is fine, but only if people understand it. If we'd seen 0 instead of e-14 we wouldn't be having this conversation now would we.