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Out of curiosity do ya'll use a coin calculator provided online or have you developed and use your own?

most of us use coinflation.com

Never, ever use that abbreviation! Some of us college students instantly associate that with "Calculus"!

Corsair wrote:Never, ever use that abbreviation! Some of us college students instantly associate that with "Calculus"!

I take it calculus is not your favorite subject huh?

i thought the topic was the same though.....but back on topic i also use http://www.coinflation.com

Corsair wrote:Never, ever use that abbreviation! Some of us college students instantly associate that with "Calculus"!

That is EXACTLY what I thought of.

Corsair wrote:Never, ever use that abbreviation! Some of us college students instantly associate that with "Calculus"!

How about "diff-e-q" ?

natsb88 wrote:

Corsair wrote:Never, ever use that abbreviation! Some of us college students instantly associate that with "Calculus"!

How about "diff-e-q" ?

Calc is mostly plug and play......but.....thats just mean nate.

Differential Equations was no fun either!

I was going to PM most of the people individually who offered me support last semester, but since it's brought up here, I'll make the announcement in this thread. I'm sorry to yoink your thread, rsk, but as Ray said, coinflation is the best place to go, hands down. Anyway...

I got a B in Calculus! I was only three questions on the final away from getting an A. Since math isn't where I want to go with my life, I doubt I'll make it to Diff Eq. But I am registered for Calc II in the fall, because I do enjoy math, and it's hard to imagine a year at school without a math class of some kind. To all those who wished me well, I greatly appreciate it, and keep up the prayers for the fall!

I built one in excel. Just update your qtys and it does all the rest.
I've also got a tab for foreign Ag coins that is handy to print when going to the coin shop to forage the bargain bins.

Corsair wrote:I was going to PM most of the people individually who offered me support last semester, but since it's brought up here, I'll make the announcement in this thread. I'm sorry to yoink your thread, rsk, but as Ray said, coinflation is the best place to go, hands down. Anyway...

I got a B in Calculus! I was only three questions on the final away from getting an A. Since math isn't where I want to go with my life, I doubt I'll make it to Diff Eq. But I am registered for Calc II in the fall, because I do enjoy math, and it's hard to imagine a year at school without a math class of some kind. To all those who wished me well, I greatly appreciate it, and keep up the prayers for the fall!

Congrats on the grade! My score on the AP exam wasn't good enough to get credit in college, but it did qualify me for "accelerated calculus," which just meant I took Calc I and II in the same semester. In hindsight, that wasn't a good choice, as I really struggled towards the end of Calc II and all through Calc III and Diff Eq. Those three are the worst grades on my transcript. There is a general consensus among engineering students and faculty at my school that the way calculus is taught in the math department does not translate well to engineering applications. My class actually provided a lot of feedback junior and senior years that is being used to restructure part of the curriculum, so hopefully it will improve in the future.

Corsair wrote:Never, ever use that abbreviation! Some of us college students instantly associate that with "Calculus"!

lol sorry.

Corsair wrote:I was going to PM most of the people individually who offered me support last semester, but since it's brought up here, I'll make the announcement in this thread. I'm sorry to yoink your thread, rsk, but as Ray said, coinflation is the best place to go, hands down. Anyway...

I got a B in Calculus! I was only three questions on the final away from getting an A. Since math isn't where I want to go with my life, I doubt I'll make it to Diff Eq. But I am registered for Calc II in the fall, because I do enjoy math, and it's hard to imagine a year at school without a math class of some kind. To all those who wished me well, I greatly appreciate it, and keep up the prayers for the fall!

It's all good. Congrats.

Dumpster Diver wrote:I built one in excel. Just update your qtys and it does all the rest.
I've also got a tab for foreign Ag coins that is handy to print when going to the coin shop to forage the bargain bins.

(or live auctions)

Very cool. The reason I asked is because I did something very similar (replace forgien coin with sterling calculator ( better? )). Before I realized I could use coinflation or some other thing, and I was just kinda curious as to who uses what for my own personal knowledge (for a lack of better words).

I do it all by abacus and sun dails to determine spot on bullion.

For real though, I just check spot and do the quick math- multipliers of .77 and .723 (I know that later one should be .715, but I just got use to punching that in)..... for old dollars and devisible coinage. Then I do my standard .85 and make the offer;-)

I had a guy call me yesterday from my add on CL and asked what I was buying for... I said $21.50. He responds to that "Hmmm, let me see, that is $21.50 times $5000 face.... that comes to around 100K right?" I quickly explained to him that I was wasting his time and good luck selling that kind of weight.....

fusscharles wrote:I do it all by abacus and sun dails to determine spot on bullion.

For real though, I just check spot and do the quick math- multipliers of .77 and .723 (I know that later one should be .715, but I just got use to punching that in)..... for old dollars and devisible coinage. Then I do my standard .85 and make the offer;-)

I had a guy call me yesterday from my add on CL and asked what I was buying for... I said $21.50. He responds to that "Hmmm, let me see, that is $21.50 times $5000 face.... that comes to around 100K right?" I quickly explained to him that I was wasting his time and good luck selling that kind of weight.....

Get a personal loan and then sell it all here for $22X. You would make some moola and make a lot of people here happy.

I use a Krause book and a pencil, and a piece of paper.

I screw it up almost every time

Thogey wrote:I use a Krause book and a pencil, and a piece of paper.

I screw it up almost every time

Hey, I have the patent on screwing it up almost every time! By your own admission, you now owe me lots of money which will help me recover some of my losses from screwing it up almost every time.

I made an excel sheet before I found coinflation. I still use my excell sheet when I want to calculate at what price I will buy at. I then keep track of my sales and purchases as well as what I have in coin or bar form and what my pile is worth at current spot price. Excel is a great tool.

Of course most people use coinflation because the site ROCKS but heres one for adding up multiple coins, good for placing bids on ebay right before an auction closes:

http://www.coinnews.net/tools/automated ... -valuator/

shinnosuke wrote:

fusscharles wrote:I do it all by abacus and sun dails to determine spot on bullion.

For real though, I just check spot and do the quick math- multipliers of .77 and .723 (I know that later one should be .715, but I just got use to punching that in)..... for old dollars and devisible coinage. Then I do my standard .85 and make the offer;-)

I had a guy call me yesterday from my add on CL and asked what I was buying for... I said $21.50. He responds to that "Hmmm, let me see, that is $21.50 times $5000 face.... that comes to around 100K right?" I quickly explained to him that I was wasting his time and good luck selling that kind of weight.....

Get a personal loan and then sell it all here for $22X. You would make some moola and make a lot of people here happy.

Or, it could be a setup for a robbery as in that news story posted here recently where a coin dealer was robbed of $60k and his car on a fake silver buy. Getting robbed of a large amount of borrowed money would be a very bad scenario.

I like http://www.australian-threepence.com/si ... values.htm for calculation Canadian silver totals in Canadian dollars. There are pages on many countries' coins.