Specifiers & Rounding
Soulver supports a number of different "specifiers" that let you choose how your answer is displayed.
Strip the unit, rate or percentage from a number
$100 as number | 10040/day as number | 4020% as number | 0.2
Display the answer as a fraction, if possible
2/10 as fraction | 1/550% as fraction | 1/2
Convert to a percentage. Note that 0.5 is 50%, 2 is 200%.
0.35 as % | 35%2/5 as percent | 40%
Format as a multiplier.
20/5 as multipler | 4x
Specify the amount of decimal places to round an answer to. This will override the line's default precision settings.
1/3 to 2 dp | 0.33π to 5 digits | 3.141595.5 rounded | 65.5 rounded down | 55.5 rounded up | 6
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 s10 days as timespan | 1 week 3 days
A laptime is a quantity of time in the format HH:MM:SS.MS
5.5 minutes as laptime | 00:05:30
Unix time is a system for describing a moment in time, often used by programmers. A timestamp is number of seconds that have passed since the "reference date" (January 1st, 1970).
Convert a date to a timestamp
April 1, 2019 to timestamp | 1554109200
Convert a timestamp back into a date
1559740303.48 to date | 5 June 2019 at 11:11 pm
To get a timestamp for the present moment, use new timestamp
new timestamp | 1559740303.48
ISO8601 is an international standard for formatting dates & times, often used by databases.
Display a date in iso8601
April 1, 2019 3:30pm as iso8601 | 2019-04-01T15:30:00Z
Note: iso8601 formatted dates are currently not recognised in expressions. They can only be used for formatting answers, or via line references.
