Thanks to every one who has replied. It is only that I'm trying to calculate a number of G&J weights from their cast weight, less Tunings to arrive at the Tuned or Despatched weight when the Tuned weight is not given in their Tuning Books.
Alan B.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Trotman
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Re: £ - s - d.
In case it's of any help here's a JavaScript fragment to convert lbs to cwt-qrs-lbs:
function lbsToCwtQrsLbs(wtlbs){
var lbs = wtlbs % 28; // remainder # lbs after removing qrs from total
var wtqrs = (wtlbs - lbs)/28; // total is now 'wtqrs' qrs plus 'lbs' lbs
var qrs = wtqrs % 4; // remainder # qrs after removing cwt from 'wtqrs'
var cwt = (wtqrs - qrs)/4; // total is now 'cwt'x 112 + 'qrs'x 28 + 'lbs'
if ((lbs==0)&&(qrs==0)){return cwt+'cwt';}
return cwt+'-'+qrs+'-'+lbs;
}
Peter Trotman
On 5/21/08, Mike Chester <mike at TiGphCErcTvNn64zJSz97uYXfpBczsoDK3QXWmOfgXaQRUVSQhCf4nURH8ecTSjgA-8GTCimgoD57ouSM6ihmns2tc6VtA.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Alan Buswell" <aaj.buswell at ...>
wrote:
> Does anyone have a formula whereby one can add/subtract Tons -
> hundredweight - quarters - pounds suitable for computer use? I'm not
> well up in these matters.
>
> Alan B.
>
Depending on how many you might want to do you might use this site?.
http://home.swbell.net/csz_stl/towerbells/Cwt-Qtr-Lb_Calculator.html
Could convert things into pounds, add them up and covert them back into
Lsd?
Mike
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