Google calculator
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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!
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!
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Re: Because you're going to need to know how many tablespoons are in a cubic light-year.
Date: 2005-02-28 08:58 pm (UTC)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.