Google calculator

[randomness]

From tenzil:

Some of you may be unaware that Google can do this:

Go to google.com, and type into the search box, how many grams in 1 pound.

Note the fine way that Google just GIVES you the answer, to about five decimal places, and doesn't even bother trying to search for results -- though it gives you a link to click on in case you were really looking for websites based on that phrase.

And it works even on ridiculous conversions and units of measure, such as how many tablespoons in a cubic light-year (answer).

Neat!

Comments

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

To save a bit of typing, you can just phrase it
1 cubic light year in tablespoons
or
1 pound in grams
or
1 furlong per fortnight in miles per hour
or so on...

[a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com]

My favorite is searching for "gross!"

Re: Because you're going to need to know how many tablespoons are in a cubic light-year.

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Google can find a hotel room with breakfast included. So the objection has less force here. :-) (Though that is a beautiful zinger.)

Re: Because you're going to need to know how many tablespoons are in a cubic light-year.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Google can find a hotel room with breakfast included.

Hey, that's pretty cool. I poked at it a little and found that it understands Canadian postal codes (H3C 2A9, for example, gets you hotels in Montreal), but not British postal codes (like NW1 3ND), which makes sense, since maps.google.com doesn't cope with places outside the US and Canada.

Pity, though. It can't answer the question "find a hotel room with breakfast included" in Berlin, Germany. But there isn't any local.google for Germany or Austria yet, so I guess it'll have to wait.