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zathril

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Tuesday Oct 07, 2008

Oct 7, 2008
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My old scale has been lying to me, I was sure enough of it that I went out and bought a new scale. Tried one out in the store and it told me a number I beleived then just grabbed one in a box and took it home. Then of course I tried it out and it gave me a number that I had a little trouble accepting, it was 60 pounds away from the other scale so obviously they were both confused.

So I went around the house and grabbed things of known weight (weights, handy that way) and piled them onto the scales to do a little math. Scale 1 was just plain broken, and not in a useful way, it'd be out any which direction that it felt like at different points. Scale two was also wrong, but in a much more interesting manner. It's wrong consistently, in fact it's wrong by exactly the difference between a two pound kilogram and a kilogram here on earth at sea level.

So now I obviously can't get rid of it because it's become simply a problem of geography not inaccuracy. I just need to figure out what planet a kilogram weighs two pounds on and then I'll know how much things weigh there. Till then I'll just keep doing the math for an accurate number here.
d20:
this is why programmers are such entertaining people to be around. we don't think "oh, it's broken, ah well."

no, we go through all sorts of complex tests and tinkering and end up with a conversion chart in our bathroom that provides a handy reference to convert what the scale thinks into actual units.
Oct 8, 2008

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