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Unsure-Calculator

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Unsure-Calculator #

Unsure Calculator #

Created: April 12, 2020 7:07 PM URL: https://filiph.github.io/unsure/

Calculate with numbers you’re not sure about #

Hi, I’m Filip, and I’d like to introduce to you an early version of an uncertainty calculator. The range notation says the following to the calculator: *I am not sure about the exact number here, but I am 95% sure it’s somewhere in this range. *“Well, I don’t know this number exactly, so I’ll just pick the first number that seems plausible and calculate with that. Unsure%20Calculator%20184175d7166640d99984c3ba269dc2d4/shrug.png Unsure Calculator to the rescue! Unsure%20Calculator%20184175d7166640d99984c3ba269dc2d4/alien.png

Other use cases #

Here are some ideas of how to use this calculator and its notation. For example: 1000~1500 x 10~12 x (30~50 / 100)

  • Estimate time saved by a dishwasher (or any other piece of technology) given uncertain number of times used per week, uncertain time saving per use, uncertain lifetime and uncertain installation costs. For example: 100 x tan(70 ~ 80)
  • Estimate return on investment of a marketing campaign, given an uncertain number of views, uncertain click through rate, uncertain conversion rate, and uncertain spend.