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What Kind Of Calculations Are You Expecting The Device To Do Via Voice?

I Just Asked My Phone: "What Is The Square Root Of 6 Times 4 Minus 32 Times 8"

She Responded: "The Answer Is Approximately Minus 246 Point 202"

The Phone Displayed The Calculation As:

(Square Root(6) x 4) -(32 x 8) = -246.202041029

I'm Not Impressed. She Should Have Said "The Answer Is Approximately Negative 246 Point 202"

I asked my dog. He scratched on the floor with his paw, -246. Just rounded it off. Dumb dog.

How did he indicate the "negative"? Did he use his back paw or did he scratch back to front?

How about "nineteen and three sixteenths divided by three"? ;-)

She said: "The answer is approximately 6 point 396" and displayed:

(19 3/16)/3 = 6.39583333333

BTW, she also displays a calculator in case I want to so my own calculations.

Hmm, didn't answer a fractional question with a fractional answer?

How much tolerance do you allow?

I'd convert in my head to 18 18/16 = 6 3/16 plus about a third of a

Turned to face south. Usually faces north for math. Faces west to give temperature in Fahrenheit, east for Celsius.

Electric Comet wrote in news:o6ge41$646$2 @dont-email.me:

Cortana can handle basic math, but when I throw anything more complicated at her, she just does a web search. When my hands are full, that's when I usually don't need a calculator.

Puckdropper

When I added "in sixteenths" to the question, instead of doing the math, my phone offered some links to on-line calculators that give answers in fractions.

Ed Pawlowski wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

He's obviously not a sheep dog. They're good at rounding things up, so he would have said -250.

Puckdropper

Dog's a liar; she's horrible at math. But, she can read over DerbyDad's shoulder.

Dave in SoTex

Since the information given is only good to 1/16", more precision in the result wouldn't be useful.

But that is rounding it down not up, up is -245.

Really? So if I have a piece of something that measures 1/16" and I want to cut it into thirds, I guess I'm already done. But wait, I still only have 1 piece.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

You need to take into account the width of the Kerf. It is extremely difficult to get 3 pieces 6.00 inches long out of an

going to add this feature to the talking table saw fence

examples

inches 33 millimeters

millimeters 7 inches

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Years ago woodworkers worried about things like that, but no more. Today, you get two pieces a full 6" and a third piece that gets a trophy for participating.

No, if you cut something in three, you will always have three pieces (kinda by definition). If you ask what is 1/16 divided by three, the right answer is "zero".

No, in this case theory and practice are perfectly compatable. The problem is understanding precision.