Convert AWG to Inches

Question

AWG (American Wire Gauge) is a common way of specifying wire sizes. Your task in this challenge is to convert from a given gauge to the diameter of the wire in inches.

The size in inches for the gauges from 4/0 to 40 are shown in the table below:

Gauge to inches table

| AWG | Diameter (Inches) |
|-----|-------------------|
| 4/0 | 0.46              |
| 3/0 | 0.4096            |
| 2/0 | 0.3648            |
| 1/0 | 0.3249            |
| 1   | 0.2893            |
| 2   | 0.2576            |
| 3   | 0.2294            |
| 4   | 0.2043            |
| 5   | 0.1819            |
| 6   | 0.162             |
| 7   | 0.1443            |
| 8   | 0.1285            |
| 9   | 0.1144            |
| 10  | 0.1019            |
| 11  | 0.0907            |
| 12  | 0.0808            |
| 13  | 0.072             |
| 14  | 0.0641            |
| 15  | 0.0571            |
| 16  | 0.0508            |
| 17  | 0.0453            |
| 18  | 0.0403            |
| 19  | 0.0359            |
| 20  | 0.032             |
| 21  | 0.0285            |
| 22  | 0.0253            |
| 23  | 0.0226            |
| 24  | 0.0201            |
| 25  | 0.0179            |
| 26  | 0.0159            |
| 27  | 0.0142            |
| 28  | 0.0126            |
| 29  | 0.0113            |
| 30  | 0.01              |
| 31  | 0.00893           |
| 32  | 0.00795           |
| 33  | 0.00708           |
| 34  | 0.0063            |
| 35  | 0.00561           |
| 36  | 0.005             |
| 37  | 0.00445           |
| 38  | 0.00397           |
| 39  | 0.00353           |
| 40  | 0.00314           |

Clarifications

• For gauges less than 0, you can take the input as either 3/0 or 000
• You only have to support from the given 4/0 to 40
• The Wikipedia page has some helpful formulas you can try to use if you don't want to hardcode everything
• Output your answers to at least 3 sig-figs
• This code-golf, so shortest code in bytes wins!

Answer 1

J, 33 26 bytes

0.46%92^39%~*@".{3+".,~1-#

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Takes input as a string with gauges less than zero as a string of zeroes. Finds the index of that string and divides 0.46 (the diameter of 0000) by the 39th root of 92 (the ratio between gauges) that many times.

Explanation

0.46%92^39%~*@".{3+".,~1-#  Input: string S
                         #  Length of S
                       1-   Subtract it from 1
                   ".,~     Eval S and append it, forms [1-len(S), eval(S)]
                 3+         Add 3 to each
            *@".            Sign of the eval
                {           Use that to index into the previous list
        39%~                Divide by 39
     92^                    Raise 92 to that power
0.46%                       Divide 0.46 by that and return

Answer 2

JavaScript (ES7), 36 bytes

s=>.46/92**(((+s||1-s.length)+3)/39)

Takes input in "0000" format.

Answer 3

Bash + GNU utils, 47

bc -l<<<"e(l(92)*(36-(${1/\/0/*-1+1}))/39)/200"

Straightforward arithmetic expression evaluation using bc. Input given as a command-line parameter.

Gauges less than 0 are given as n/0. The bash parameter expansion ${1/\/0/*-1+1} converts these to -ve numbers and adds one which makes the arithmetic come out right.

bc -l gives 20 decimal places by default. bc's exponentiation operator ^ can only handle integer exponents so ln(y*e(x)) is used instead.

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Answer 4

Jelly, 18 bytes

VoLC$+3÷39µ92*.46÷

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A monadic link taking a tring and returning a number. The '0...0' cases produce some extra output, but the return value is correct, as may be seen by ignoring the first two lines here.

How?

VoLC$+3÷39µ92*.46÷ - Main link: guageString
V                  - evaluate as Jelly code (a string of zeros evaluates to 0)
    $              - last two links as a monad
  L                -     length
   C               -     complement (1-length)
 o                 - Or (integer value for > 0, 1-lenght for strings of zeros)
     +3            - add 3
       ÷39         - divide by 39
          µ        - monadic chain separation (call the result p)
              .46÷ - 0.46 divided by
           92*     - 92 raised to the power of p

Answer 5

Python 3, 45 bytes

lambda s:.46/92**((3+(int(s)or 1-len(s)))/39)

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Answer 6

05AB1E, 25 23 bytes

8Ø50/92ID1‹ig(>}3+39/m/

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Explanation

8Ø                       # push the 8th prime (0-indexed) = 23
  50/                    # divide by 50 = 0.46
     92                  # push 92
       I                 # push input
        D1‹i   }         # if input < 1
            g(>          # calculate -len(input)+1
                3+       # add 3
                  39/    # divide by 39
                     m   # raise 92 to this power
                      /  # divide 0.46 by this

Answer 7

Excel, 53 49 bytes

=92^((36-IF(ISNUMBER(A1),A1,49-CODE(A1)))/39)/200

Takes gauges less than Zero as String (1/0, 2/0 etc.)

Answer 8

Perl 5, 39 + 1 (-p) = 40 bytes

s/(.).0/1-$1/e;$_=.005*92**((36-$_)/39)

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Takes the bigger gauges as "n/0".