Love Calculator

A playful compatibility score for two names.

Handicap systems, scoring methods and house rules vary by course and club, and novelty scores are entertainment rather than measurement. Where a governing body publishes a formula, the figure follows it exactly.

Leisure arithmetic runs on established rules or on none at all: a US golf handicap comes from the World Handicap System's score differentials, dice and pickers follow probability, and novelty scores carry no predictive claim. Where a real system exists it is quoted, and where there is none the figure is a game.

Compatibility quizzes combine weighted answers into a score, and the weighting is the author's choice rather than a measurement. The output is entertainment, and the questions themselves are the useful part.

Draws and rolls reset on every attempt, so a run of one result says nothing about the next one.

Where a governing body publishes a method, the figure follows its definitions exactly — a golf handicap is built from score differentials against course rating and slope. Novelty scores carry no predictive claim and exist for entertainment rather than measurement.

Love Calculator sits with the rest of the library's everyday work, and it rests on the same leisure-scoring arithmetic the way a manufacturer's label or a timetable does. Its answer is only as good as the assumptions standing behind it.

The quantities it works from — first name and second name — are the ones a real leisure-scoring question actually turns on, and each carries a convention of its own, set out below.

Everyday arithmetic in the United States carries conventions that are easy to miss: dates run month before day, distances and weights follow customary units, and prices are quoted before tax. Those conventions make a surprising share of daily sums come out differently from the same question asked elsewhere.

The figures in this section follow American practice unless the subject itself is international.