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Simple formulas to convert weights
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06/11/2015 14:41:15
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
 
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Science & Medicine
Category:
Mathematics
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01627170
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01627176
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>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I just spent about 15 minutes googling and could not find simple formulas I need to implement for conversions of kg into pounds or stones and pounds, pounds into the other 2 and stone and pounds into the other two.
>>>
>>>Here is what I started to write but I can not find the formulas to use:
>>>
>>>
>>> $scope.updateWeight = function(weight1, weight2, units)
>>>            {
>>>
>>>                switch (units) {
>>>                    case 'kg':
>>>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightG = weight1 * 1000;
>>>                        $scope.currentGuest.weight = Math.round(weight1 * 2.20462); // weight in pounds
>>>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightStone = Math.round(weight1 * 0.15747); // weight in stones
>>>                        $scope.currentGuest.weigthLbs = // remainder for stones/pounds
>>>                        break;
>>>                    case 'lbs':
>>>                        
>>>                        break;
>>>
>>>                    case 'stones': // stones and pounds
>>>                        break;
>>>                }
>>>            }
>>
>>A metric pound is half a kg? But it's marked as deprecated for ages.
>
>Well, this is what I came up with after looking through various sites and trying to also determine the max limit for all of these:
>
>
>switch (units) {
>                    case 'kg':
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightG = weight1 * 1000;
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weight = Math.round(weight1 * 2.20462); // weight in pounds
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightStone = Math.round(weight1 * 0.15747); // weight in stones
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightLbs = Math.round(weight1 * 2.20462 % 14); // remainder for stones/pounds
>                        break;
>                    case 'lbs':
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightG = Math.round(weight1 * 453.592);
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightKg = weight1 * 0.453592;
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightStone = Math.round(weight1 / 14);
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightLbs = Math.round(weight1 % 14);
>                        break;
>
>                    case 'stones': // stones and pounds
>
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weight = weight1 * 14 + weight2;
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightG = Math.round($scope.currentGuest.weight * 453.592);
>                        $scope.currentGuest.weightKg = $scope.currentGuest.weight * 0.453592;
>                        break;
>                }
>
>and on the page markup:
>
>
><div class="form-group row">
>        <label class="col-md-2 control-label" title="@Labels.weight">@Labels.weight</label>
>        <div class="controls" ng-show="showWeightKg">
>            <div class="col-md-2 col-lg-2">
>                <input type="number" class="form-control"
>                       data-sm:number-format data-sm:number ng-show="showWeightKg"
>                       min="0.00" max="600.00" name="weightKg" id="weightKg"
>                       ng-change="changeWeightKgHappened()"
>                       ng-model="currentGuest.weightKg" />
>            </div>
>            <label class="col-md-1" title="Kg.">Kg.</label>
>            <div class="field-validation-error">
>                <span ng-show="(form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightKg.$error.min || form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightKg.$error.max) && form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightKg.$dirty">
>                    @String.Format(Messages.mustBeBetweenXandY, Labels.weight, 0.00, 600.00)
>                </span>
>            </div>
>        </div>
>
>        <div class="controls" ng-show="showWeight">
>            <div class="col-md-2 col-lg-2">
>                <input type="number" class="form-control"
>                       data-sm:number-format data-sm:number ng-show="showWeight"
>                       min="0" max="1500" name="weight" id="weight"
>                       ng-model="currentGuest.weight"
>                       ng-change="changeWeightHappened()" />
>            </div>
>            <label class="col-md-1" title="Lbs.">Lbs.</label>
>
>            <div class="field-validation-error">
>                <span ng-show="(form.editGuestGeneralForm.weight.$error.min || form.editGuestGeneralForm.weight.$error.max) && form.editGuestGeneralForm.weight.$dirty">
>                    @String.Format(Messages.mustBeBetweenXandY, Labels.weight, 0, 1500)
>                </span>
>            </div>          
>        </div>
>
>        <div class="controls" ng-show="showWeightStone">
>            <div class="col-md-2 col-lg-2">
>                <input type="number" class="form-control"
>                       data-sm:number-format data-sm:number ng-show="showWeightStone"
>                       min="0" max="100" name="weightStone" id="weightStone"
>                       ng-model="currentGuest.weightStone"
>                       ng-change="changeWeightStoneHappened()" />
>            </div>
>            <label class="col-md-1" title="St.">St.</label>
>
>            <div class="field-validation-error">
>                <span ng-show="(form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightStone.$error.min || form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightStone.$error.max) && form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightStone.$dirty">
>                    @String.Format(Messages.mustBeBetweenXandY, Labels.weight, 0, 100)
>                </span>
>            </div>
>            <div class="col-md-2 col-lg-2">
>                <input type="number" class="form-control"
>                       data-sm:number-format data-sm:number ng-show="showWeightStone"
>                       min="0" max="13" name="weightLbs" id="hweightLbs"
>                       ng-model="currentGuest.weightLbs"
>                       ng-change="changeWeightStoneHappened()" />
>            </div>
>            <label class="col-md-1" title="Lbs.">Lbs.</label>
>            <div class="field-validation-error">
>                <span ng-show="(form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightLbs.$error.min || form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightLbs.$error.max) && form.editGuestGeneralForm.weightLbs.$dirty">
>                    @String.Format(Messages.mustBeBetweenXandY, Labels.weight, 0, 13)
>                </span>
>            </div>
>        </div>
>
>
>Will be testing these now.

Can you imagine how I look at this? Metric is so simple ...
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