Google calculator

Following AlltheWeb but with less units in conversion

[Allergic]

[google.com...]

[GoogleGuy]

There are quite a few fun things hidden in the calculator.

Like Roman numerals:
VII * X

Plenty of units:
ounces in a cup

Nice parsing of English expressions:
fifteenth root of 32768, or seventy four times 28

And some fun stuff that mathematics buffs will love:
planck's constant * 5, or 12!, or speed of light in centimeters/second, or seconds in a day * 7, ...

Anyway, something easy to use when you need to know what the sqrt(-1) is. :)

[Chndru]

Very Interesting and useful :)...
wonder how the G aesthetics allowed for big bold fonted "ounces in a cup", when you search for that term

[brotherhood of LAN]

>ounces in a cup

>1 US cup

lol. I never knew U.S. cups were bigger than non U.S. cups, I learn something from Google everyday!

I suppose people were searching for these things to warrant the tool?

//added
so if i write 10 * ten, and it says 100, I wonder if they convert the numbers when parsing the webpages in the same way they are here..

[ciml]

Oh, this is fun. I thought the " G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2 " example would be hard-wired, but you can really play with it.

" mass of earth/((4/3) pi radius of earth^3) " works fine, but I can't get a log base other than 10.

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Brotherhood, search for ~ten. :-)

[Hawkgirl]

You guys have finally outgeeked yourselves. :)

[MonkeeSage]

It does modulus also. 5 mod 2 = 1, 2 mod 2 = 0. :)

Jordan

[Bones]

No "chains" though. :)

[atadams]

This is way too cool. Just when I was hoping I could start to dislike Google they do something like this and show again that they are "one of us".

[GoogleGuy]

Hawkgirl, we have not yet begun to geek. :)

2 fathoms * the boltzmann constant

100 ohms * 3 amps

100 cubits * 1 quattuordecillionth

[MonkeeSage]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Bones!

Ps. D*** it Jim, it's a calculator not a plotting device. ;D

Jordan

[IITian]

Tried to find the value of Google by entering it but it couldn't! How much is Google worth? ;)

[brotherhood of LAN]

>the value of Google

im sure when they IPO they'd like a $ at the start, besides the spelling is Googol ;)

>~ten

ahh, found another example like that, buy and bye. Hey at least the calculator works ;)

[viggen]

most useful for me is the celsius conversion, having some US friends that use that silly fahrenheit =P

[Timotheos]

Anybody figure out how to do things in binary or hexadecimal?

[Bones]

Try something like: 11010101 in hexadecimal.

Great tool btw. Thanks MonkeeSage! :)

[ScottM]

No factorial?

53647523!

I loved those...

[g1smd]

One thing about certain types of numbers on Google searches.

Google does not treat a date as a date.

Different results for: 2003-05-07, 2003 May 07, 07/05/2003, May 07 2003, 7th May 2003 and so on.

I wonder if ~May = ~05?

I wonder if ~7th = ~07 = ~7?

Off to play and find out.

[tschild]

Notation for number bases:

10 in hex -> 0xA
10 in binary -> 0b1010
10 in octal -> 0o12

[tschild]

Seems not to work with fractions, though. 0.5 in hex does not yield 0x0.8

[caine]

I wasn't aware of any fractions in HEX. new to me.

[TheDave]

I think they've taken it down, I can't see it on that page linked to in the original post. Can anyone tell me the actual url to the calculator (not to the page of features)

[MonkeeSage]

TheDave:

I think that the original page was just an announcement that Google can do calculations now, not a special page. Try just entering in a normal Google query, e.g.,

5 + 1

:)

Jordan

[caine]

a google calculator.

SERPs are on us:-

We will show you how to optimise your site for #1 accross our network!
lol

[TheDave]

Ahh I see! thanks Jordan :)

[Scaramanga]

This Google calculator thing knows what a Rod is (2.75 Fathoms of course) but hasn't heard of Poles and Perches! It's bang out of order! I'm not going to stand for this - I'm boycotting Google until they rectify this egregious error. Who's with me?

[MonkeeSage]

LOL! I'm with you, they know what a Cubit is, but not a Span or a Peck...what madness is this! ;)

Jordan

[GoogleGuy]

Heck, even I haven't heard of poles and perches. I've barely heard of a peck. At least it knows that 1 bushel = 35.239 liters. :)

I think it has a few constants (Euler's constant, plank's constant). I wouldn't be surprised if it knew the answer to life, the universe, and everything. :)

[NeverHome]

Haha! it does!

answer to life, the universe and everything = 42

[Timotheos]

So what's next? A currency convertor based on current market values? Maybe too much liability in that one :-)