Answer Forms

A way to specify the form of a number

Soulver supports a number of different "specifiers" that let you choose how your answer is displayed.

Decimals

Strip the unit, rate or percentage from a number

$100 as number                                        | 100
40/day as number                                      | 40
20% as number                                         | 0.2

Fractions

Display the answer as a fraction, if possible.

2/10 as fraction                                        | 1/5
50% as fraction                                         | 1/2

Percentages

Convert to a percentage. Note that 0.5 is 50%, 2 is 200%.

0.35 as %                                             | 35%
2/5 as percent                                        | 40%

Multipliers

Format as a multiplier.

20/5 as multipler                                       | 4x

Hex & Binary

Convert between bases.

256 as hex                           | 0x100
99 to binary                         | 0b1100011
0x9F31 to decimal                    | 40,753
0b1000101 to decimal                 | 69

Timespans

A timespan is a quantity of time that includes multiple components (from the year down to the second)

5.5 minutes as timespan              | 5 min 30 s
10 days as timespan                  | 1 week 3 days

Laptimes

A laptime is a quantity of time in the format HH:MM:SS.MS

5.5 minutes as laptime               | 00:05:30