Hey guys.
I'm wondering how to calculate area on this.
I've read the manual and it doesn't mention it, yet in all the descriptions it says it calculates area and volume.
Is it not automatic as it is on the Bosch?
I know I can multiply length and width.
Can you please help?
Cheers.
OK what?
OK it can't
I'm wondering that. The descriptions on kogan, dick smith, Ali express and bang good all at it calculates area though.
probably multiple modes you can choose,etc. For instance one does, length, one does length and breadth=area, and one does length breadth and width=area.
Yeah I thought it would but I can't find a combination of buttons that does it. There's only one button same as the Bosch
Considering theres like only one button its probably hold down to change modes, probably have to google manual to find more
I've got the manual and it doesn't mention it.
Holding it down puts it in continuous mode, then min and Max.
@teacherer: Had a quick check, seems that you probably have to calculate that yourself, only the later updated models like the LS-P has the additional modes.
Username is worrying.
How so? I've read the description of all listing's and the manual
From my short research, it can't do it. The ls-p can. But as you said, multiply length by width
It's some cheap Chinese thing, listed on sites that sell cheap Chinese things. They likely just all copies the ls-p listing, then copied the descriptions from each other. Many such cases.
Ah yes. I thought the same, my how so was in response to your question
@teacherer: It wasn't a question, but a statement. I would expect a science teacher would be able to come to this conclusion on their own is all.
@brendanm: It might be hard for you to tell but I did come to that conclusion as per my discussion with milkdrinker.
I put it on the forums as this product has over 200 positive votes and i thought my conclusion could be…peer reviewed.
Thanks for your contribution though.
how to calculate area
I know I can multiply length and width
Area = length x width only valid on regular quadrilaterals!
Generalised area formulae for convex quads
Areas of irregular shapes, non-Euclidean geometries, and higher dimensions: use tessellations and differential geometry.
Clearly I'm only measuring regular quadrilaterals
It was not clear at all from reading your post.
It was, as I said I know how to calculate area.
Not what I was asking for help for.
I'll let you know if I need helping calculating irregular shapes hey.
You think some $20 trinket will be calculating complex areas?
No but science-teacher wrote area = length X width which is generally incorrect.
It's extremely obvious he is talking about rectangles/squares.
@brendanm: How so? S/he might be measuring a rhombus or a trapezium or any number of irregular quads. How can you be certain that the angles that make up her/his quads are right angles, without seeing a MSPaint illustration?
Or s/he might be trying to measure a rectangular piece of undulating land, in which case length X width of the rectangular base will not give the actual land area.
@alvian: I'm terribly sorry, you are correct, it's quite obvious he was trying the find the area of a concave octagon room with a $20 Chinese laser measurer. It's actually quite annoying when people build concave octagon rooms, so hard to find the are of them, let alone get furniture that will fit.
Also, the angles don't have to be right angles to be able to measure area with length X width. A rhombus or parallelogram can also be measured this way. The sides opposite to each other just have to be the same length.
Ok