Author Topic: Google Currency converter is handicapped  (Read 2489 times)

Money decimals go to 2 places but Google's currency converter goes to 6, maybe even more.
UK£ 1.55 = 2.420945 U.S. dollars
Dafuq?

It's more accurate so that makes it handicapped?
Great logic.
« Last Edit: June 26, 2012, 03:12:11 PM by Electrk »

You can have half a penny.

Gas prices here go up to 3 decimal places. Accuracy =/= handicapation.

Google's currency converter uses the most up to date information on the worth of different currencies to calculate the conversions. When dealing with money, it can go further in decimal places in terms of worth. Some bankers cheat this system by taking everything under one cent and transferring it to themselves. Over time, working with ens of thousands of transactions, more and more, this can make a large sum of money.

Point being, that number is correct. Round it down for what you'd get.


Everything you talk to me about ends up being a goddamn BL post.

For finer calculations.

If I bought 20 of something that costs 0.005, I'm going to pay 10 cents, not 0 cents.

Rounded up always as well, so if I bought 1, it would be 1 cent.

Everything you talk to me about ends up being a goddamn BL post.

 :cookieMonster:

For finer calculations.

If I bought 20 of something that costs 0.005, I'm going to pay 10 cents, not 0 cents.

Rounded up always as well, so if I bought 1, it would be 1 cent.
Blockland Forums doing math.

Totally not strange at all.

someone doesn't know how the world works.

Yeah, let's just reduce the accuracy and precision of it. Great idea. No, how about you just learn to round instead?

someone has been googling their homework...

someone has been googling their homework...

My homework wasn't currencies. It was RE.

My homework wasn't currencies. It was RE.
someone is loving stupid. seriously, who doesn't understand how decimals work?

No matter what freaking homework you just had - this is a perfect example of why you shouldn't google everything just because you don't want to read your damn school book.