Releases 1.193.6 – 1.210.2

Newest first. Three numbers, and which of them moves says what happened to you rather than how much work it was.

The first moves when something that worked stops working: a query that used to answer and now does not, a saved list that will not load, a link you shared that no longer opens what it opened. It has never moved, and that is the whole of what it is for.

The second moves when the page answers something it could not answer before, or answers it better than it did. New grammar is the usual reason. A correction is the other, and a correction is not a break even though the answer changes underneath somebody: "days be christmas" used to say 154 days and now says nothing, because it was reading Belgium out of the word "be", and taking that away left the page more right rather than less useful. An answer that gains a drawing of what it just said counts here too.

The third moves when nothing you type comes back any different.

Numbers get skipped when it takes more than one commit to introduce a release, so only the release from the last commit goes out.

1.210.21 August 2026

What a sum you get later is worth now

present value of 2000 in 10 years at 5%nothing1,227.83
what do i need now to have 2000 in 10 years at 5%nothing1,227.83
Growth read backwards. Every price with a delay in it is this question, and it is the half of compounding nobody is taught: two thousand promised in ten years is twelve hundred today, and the rest of it is the waiting.

1.210.11 August 2026

Nobody wonders what two hundred a month comes to

how much a month to have 100000 in 10 years at 5%nothing643.99 a month
how long to save 100000 at 200 a month at 5%nothing22 years 7 months
They know what they need and want to be told the two hundred. The same habit read for the payment, and read for the term, which are the two ends anybody actually holds.

1.210.01 August 2026

Nobody has only a lump

200 a month at 5% for 10 yearsnothing31,056.46
500 a month at 6% for 20 yearsnothing231,020.45
A sum left alone has grown here since the first week and a habit never had. Each payment has less time left to earn than the one before it, so the first earns for the whole term and the last earns nothing, which is why the answer is not the total multiplied by anything.

1.209.11 August 2026

The direction a mortgage is really shopped in

how much can i borrow at 6% over 30 years at 1500 a monthnothing250,187.42
how much can i afford at 5% over 25 years paying 1200 a monthnothing205,272.06
The payment you can stand is the number you know. The principal is the one you are trying to find out, and it is the same formula as the monthly payment with a different term missing.

1.209.01 August 2026

The payment that never clears it

how long to pay off 3000 at 19.9% paying 100 a monthnothing3 years 6 months
how long to pay off 3000 at 19.9% paying 49 a monthnothingnever
This could work out a payment and could not be told one, so every question where the payment is the number you already know was out of reach. The answer worth having is the second one: below a payment that covers the month's interest nothing comes off the debt at all, and "never" is the credit-card minimum laid bare.

1.208.31 August 2026

Two per cent a month is not two per cent

1000 at 2% a month for 3 yearsnothing2,039.89
doubling time at 2% a monthnothing2 years 11 months
1000 at 1% a week for 1 yearnothing1,677.69
Two per cent a month is twenty-six and a half over a year, because month two is charged on month one's interest as well. Only a yearly rate read here, so the rate that most needs working out was the one shape this could not be asked about.

1.208.21 August 2026

Thirty-six months is how a car loan is written

loan on 20000 at 5% for 36 monthsnothing599.42 a month
loan on 25000 at 7% for 24 monothing1,119.31 a month
loan on 20000 at 5% for 60 paymentsnothing377.42 a month
A term only read in years. A car is sold over thirty-six months and a phone over twenty-four, and nobody selling either writes it as a number of years, so the two commonest consumer loans in the world had to be divided by twelve in your head first. Weeks and a bare count of payments read now too.

1.208.11 August 2026

The word every rate is quoted with

20000 at 5% apr over 5 yearsnothing25,525.63
mortgage on 300000 at 6% apr for 30 yearsnothing1,798.65 a month
1000 at 5% p.a. for 10 yearsnothing1,628.89
Every loan agreement in the language says "5% APR" and every savings account says "5% AER". Neither word read, so the one sentence somebody copies straight off their own paperwork was the shape that answered nothing. "p.a.", "per annum", "a year" and "interest" come with them.

1.208.01 August 2026

A rate question is not a date

20000 at 5% apr over 5 yearsthere's no month 0nothing, until it can be read
apr on 10000 with 500 fees at 5% over 3 yearsyear must be between 1 and 9999nothing, until it can be read
A line with a percent sign next to a term was falling past the money reader and landing on the date engine, which read the numbers as a day and a month and complained about a calendar nobody had mentioned. That is worse than silence twice over: it is wrong, and it sends whoever typed it looking for the mistake in the wrong half of their line.

1.207.91 August 2026

Three quarters of a hundred

three quarters of 100nothing75
two thirds of 90nothing60
The singular has read since the spoken fractions went in, and the plural is the commoner half of the pair: nobody says "a quarter" as often as they say "three quarters".

1.207.81 August 2026

How long until five

how long until 5pmnothingin 21 hours
The unit had to be named -- "hours until 5pm" -- and the question is asked without one at least as often, when the answer is wanted in whatever it comes out as.

1.207.71 August 2026

The README catches up again

The README catches up with the fifty-odd releases behind it: the flights, the bearings, the golden hour, the solstices and the seasons, the screen units, the gas mark, the speeds, the odds, the due date, the names for things, and every phrasing of a question that used to be silent.
It is the description a reader trusts before they type anything, so a description of a calculator that no longer exists is worse than none.

1.207.61 August 2026

The chips catch up with the grammar behind them

The chips are the only thing on the page that says what it can be asked, and eight kinds of question had gone in behind them without one: the golden hour, the solstices, the seasons, whether it is dark, how long until sunset, which way one place is from another, and a flight asked in two words rather than in seven.
A visitor is shown twelve of these and leaves believing that is the whole of it, which is the argument for keeping them in step.

1.207.51 August 2026

The unit said in the middle of the question

how tall in feet and inches is 180 cmnothing5 feet 10.8661 inches
how far in miles is 20 kmnothing12.4274 miles
The unit wanted, said in the middle of the question, which is where it goes when the question is about the thing rather than about the number.

1.207.41 August 2026

A percentage of a percentage of something

30% of 30% of 100nothing9
10% of 50% of 200nothing10
How a share of a share of a price is quoted, and how a discount on a discount is worked out. One "of" has read since the first week; the chain is the same rule applied to whatever is left.

1.207.31 August 2026

Add up a list

add up 10 20 30nothing60
The list reader's question said as an instruction. The two words in front of it are the whole of the difference, and they were enough to silence it.

1.207.21 August 2026

The and in a short list

average of 10 and 20nothing15
sum of 10 and 20nothing30
The word between two numbers is how a short list is said, and the list reader read digits, commas and spaces. Two numbers is where "and" gets typed and three is where it stops, so the shortest list was the one that could not be written out loud.
Only between two numbers, which leaves "gcd of 12 and 18" -- a pair function, read two readers earlier -- exactly as it was.

1.207.11 August 2026

The thing the day belongs to

days until my birthday on 15 junnothingin 326 days
how many days until the exam on 1 decnothingin 130 days
The noun and its possessive carry no part of the answer -- the date behind the "on" is the whole of it -- and they were enough to silence the line.
Not the words the date grammar owns: "a fortnight on tuesday" and "the last friday of may" are dates read whole, and a rule that swallowed those would take a date away rather than a label.

1.207.01 August 2026

A countdown to a day that has been

days until 15 jun39 days agoin 326 days · Tue, 15 Jun 2027
days since 15 junnothing39 days ago
A day and a month with no year is this year's, which is right for "15 jun" on its own and wrong for a countdown: half the year is behind us, and a countdown to a day that has been is a countdown to nothing.
The same rule the holidays have always followed -- bare "christmas" is the next one -- said for a date written in numbers, and only where the word "until" is there to say it.

1.206.01 August 2026

Next quarter, and next june

next quarternothingin 69 days · Thu, 1 Oct 2026
next junenothingin 312 days · Jun 2027
The month and the year could be counted forwards and back and the quarter could not, though it is the period a plan is written in as often as either.
"next june" is how a date a long way off gets written, and the bare month has always answered with this year's -- which half the time has been and gone.

1.205.01 August 2026

Gas mark 6

gas mark 6nothing204 °C · 400 °F
180 c in gas marknothinggas mark 4 · the nearest mark; 6 °F off
A recipe printed in Britain says gas mark 6 and an oven anywhere else has degrees on it, so this is a conversion in the plainest sense and one this file could not do.
The marks are a defined ladder: mark 1 is 275 °F and every mark after it is 25 °F more, with two half-marks below. Going the other way it says which mark is nearest and how far off, because an oven dial has no notches in between.

1.204.01 August 2026

Feet and inches are one answer, not two

180 cm in feet and inches5.90551 feet and 70.8661 inches5 feet 10.8661 inches
70 kg in stone and poundsnothing11 stones 0.323584 pounds
150 minutes in hours and minutesnothing2 hours 30 minutes
"in feet and inches" is one answer written in two units, and it was being answered twice over: 5.9 feet and 70.9 inches are the same height said again, which is arithmetic nobody asked for.
Only the pairs that are spoken as a pair, which this file already lists for reading them on the way in. Two units that are not a pair -- miles and feet, Fahrenheit and kelvin -- are still two answers.

1.203.01 August 2026

The due date, and how far along

due date if last period 1 jun 2026nothingMon, 8 Mar 2027
how many weeks pregnant am i if due 1 mar 2027nothing8 weeks 4 days
Two of the commonest date questions there are, and both are arithmetic this file already did: 280 days from the first day of the last period, and the forty weeks minus what is left of them.
Naegele's rule is a convention rather than a measurement -- it assumes a 28-day cycle -- and the answer says so, because a date that decides plans should not look measured.

1.202.01 August 2026

One in fourteen million

1 in 14 millionthere's no month 140000000.00000714285714286% · 1 in 14,000,000
1 in 6nothing16.6666666667%
Odds written the way odds are written. It is a percentage question wearing the other notation, and the point of asking is that the two are hard to hold in your head at once.
The date engine got to it first and reported a month nobody typed. An inch is still an inch: "1 in cm" has a unit after it and not a count.

1.201.11 August 2026

How long you have been alive

how many seconds have i been alive if born 15 jun 1990nothing1,139,443,200 seconds old
The same question with the same answer, asked as time lived rather than as an age, which is how it is put when the number is going to be a surprise.

1.201.01 August 2026

Six from forty-nine

how many combinations of 6 from 49nothing13,983,816
how many permutations of 3 from 10nothing720
The lottery question, which is the one everybody has and the one shape of it this file could not read: the two numbers are said in the other order, with the word for what is wanted in front. Nobody writes "49 choose 6" outside a textbook.

1.200.11 August 2026

A percentage of a percentage

5% of 20%nothing1%
A share of a share is how a stake, a commission and a swing in a poll are all quoted, and the whole had to be a plain number.

1.200.01 August 2026

Nine to five

9 to 5 in hourshours isn't a place I know8 hours
how many hours from 9 to 5nothing8 hours
A bare hour is read as one only where the line has already said so, by naming the unit at either end. "3 to 5" is a range of two numbers in every other grammar here and stays one.
"9 to 5" is an afternoon rather than a night: two bare hours on a twelve-hour clock with the second one smaller are the two ends of a working day, which is the only reason anybody writes them that way.
It is also not nine minutes to five. Digits are read as minutes only in front of "past", where there is nothing else the line could be.

1.199.21 August 2026

A day on the end of a clock question

time in tokyo tomorrownothing9:00 am in Tokyo
The clock reader has always held that a day changes nothing about what time it is now, and it was still refusing the line for having one. The place is taken and the day is dropped, which is the same answer said without the argument.

1.199.11 August 2026

Words in the middle of a clock question

what is the time difference in hours between tokyo and londonin hours between tokyo isn't a place I knowLondon is 8 hours behind Tokyo
what will the time be in tokyobe isn't a place I know9:00 am in Tokyo
Two words in the middle of a question, each carrying nothing and each being read as the start of a place name. The unit the answer is wanted in is already the unit it is given in.

1.199.01 August 2026

A length of time, said the other way

90 minutesnothing1 hour 30 minutes · 1.5 hours · 5,400 seconds
0.5 hoursnothing30 minutes
5000 secondsnothing1 hour 23 minutes 20 seconds
A bare quantity has answered since the converter learned that what somebody typing "5 miles" wants is the other system. An hour, a minute and a second had no other system, so the three lengths this page converts in every direction were the three it could not simply show.
Said the way a stopwatch says it, and only where that is different: "5 minutes" says itself already, and handing it back would be answering the question with the question.

1.198.01 August 2026

A stopwatch reading with a colon in it

2:30 in minutesminutes isn't a place I know150 minutes
2:30 to secondsnothing9,000 seconds
The converter has read "2h30 in minutes" since the compound units went in, and a colon is how the same thing is written by anything that times something: a video, a run, a recording.
Only in front of a length of time, which is what keeps every clock query on the page a clock query: "3:30 in london" has a place after it and means an hour of the day.

1.197.11 August 2026

How far is the moon

how far is the moonnothing384,400 kilometers
how far is the sunnothing149,597,870.7 kilometers
Asked as a question rather than as a noun, which the distance reader takes for a place it does not know and then says nothing about.

1.197.01 August 2026

Boiling, freezing, and how far the two lights are

boiling point of waternothing100 Celsius · at one atmosphere
distance to the moonnothing384,400 kilometers · the mean; it runs from 356,500 to 406,700 km
distance to the sun in milesnothing92,955,807 miles
Four things asked about far oftener than the Boltzmann constant, and none of them were here.
Both temperatures are conventions rather than measurements and say so: water boils at 100 °C at one atmosphere and at 93 °C on a mountain, and the freezing point is the zero of the scale by construction.
The sun's distance is a definition, the astronomical unit having been fixed in 2012; the moon's is a mean of something that moves between 356,500 and 406,700 km, which is a difference worth saying.

1.196.11 August 2026

The day in front of the clock

monday 9am in tokyonothing10:00 pm in Tokyo · Mon 27 Jul
tuesday at 3pm in londonnothing8:00 pm in London
That is the order a meeting is written in, and it was the one order the clock reader could not take. Moved behind the clock, where a day has been read since "3pm tomorrow in tokyo" went in, rather than teaching the same thing twice.

1.196.01 August 2026

A day said before the place

3pm tomorrow in tokyotomorrow isn't a place I know4:00 am in Tokyo · Sat 25 Jul
9am monday in tokyomonday isn't a place I know10:00 pm in Tokyo · Mon 27 Jul
That is how a meeting gets written down, and the day may be said on either side of the clock. Read from the far side it has always worked; read from this side the day was handed to the place resolver and blamed for not being a city.

1.195.01 August 2026

A mile, with no one in front of it

a mile in kmnothing1.60934 km
a fortnight in daysnothing14 days
"1 mile in km" answered and "a mile in km" did not, though nobody says the one out loud. The article counts as the amount on the left and never on the right, where it means the opposite: "seconds in a day" is a count of seconds.
The date grammar has counted in fortnights since the offsets went in, and the converter had never heard of one.

1.194.01 August 2026

The ordinal spelled out

1st in wordswords isn't a unit I knowfirst
21st in wordsnothingtwenty-first
The date grammar owns "1st" and reads it as a day of this month, so the line came back with an error about a unit nobody typed, for a question with nothing wrong in it.
It is the same number said with a different ending, and the endings are a short list: first, second, third, fifth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, and -y becoming -ieth.

1.193.71 August 2026

A number in words, asked politely

what is 1234 in wordsnothingone thousand two hundred and thirty-four
how do you say 1234nothingone thousand two hundred and thirty-four
This reader runs before the rewrites, for a good reason -- a question about how a number is written must be read before anything rewrites how it is written -- and so it never had the politeness taken off for it.

1.193.61 August 2026

Holidays, listed rather than asked for

list holidays in francenothing11 national holidays
"list of holidays" read and "list holidays" did not, which is the same line written as an instruction rather than as a phrase.