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the square root of the answer to life, the universe and everything over 2 = 3.24037035
;)
SN
... For the google-watchers amongst us! :)
I wouldn't mind doing some work with them--it would be a good thing for both of us. I'm trying to help scientific literacy with my Frink project ( [futureboy.homeip.net...] ) and they're trying to build a compelling calculator that drives traffic to their site. I do a lot of the stuff that people on this list have been asking for, too, and much more.
I could also help them get more of their answers right... :) I don't know the legal aspects...is there potential liability for Google if they produce wrong numbers, or even worse, wrong units of measurement? (I've seen both of these in their calculator, and I'm a bit worried that people might trust Google's data as authoritative, when they aren't.)
It's sort of sad if unit errors make some kid get their homework wrong--but much sadder to the whole world if otherwise neat satellites like the Mars Climate Orbiter crash because of unit errors...
Isn't the Golden Mean 0.618033?
The golden mean is Phi = phi + 1 or/and :) Phi = 1/phi, being phi = 0.618033, or Phi = sqrt(5/4) + sqrt(1/4) and phi = sqrt(5/4) - sqrt(1/4). The google result is correct.
[edited by: Duckula at 11:09 am (utc) on Aug. 14, 2003]
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
Can't seem to do such archaic conversions with Google's calculator just yet.. but hey :-)
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
Can't seem to do such archaic conversions with Google's calculator just yet.. but hey :-)
Heh heh... well, with Frink ( [futureboy.homeip.net...] ) being named after my favorite Simpsons character, you'd probably assume I can do any conversion referenced in that show:
40 rods / hogshead -> mpg62500/31499937 (approx. 0.001984130952388889)Ooh, that's miserable. .0019 mpg? Try it this way:
40 rods / hogshead -> gallons/mileAbout 504 gallons per mile! That's worse than the QE2 gets... there's a sample calc in my documentation: ( [futureboy.homeip.net...] ) No wonder Abe had to earn his money on a crooked gameshow. :)
"Fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize my tires!" -- C. Montgomery Burns
e^-(2*pi*i)
[google.co.uk...]
I tried to ask Google my company's profit this month but it didn¨t know the answer. So there's still some work to do ;)
Seriously though - currency conversion sites had better watch out. How long before I can ask "300 USD in GBP"? This tool has some serious real time applications.
Edit -
How about some other real time stuff? Time in Japan, LIBOR plus 15 basis points, temperature in cairo in fahrenheit?
What a can of worms!
[edited by: SlyOldDog at 1:57 pm (utc) on Aug. 14, 2003]
1.5 score in roman [google.com]
"75 kilograms = 6.74066384 × 10^18 Joules"
That's my own weight (body mass) in terms of energy (latent heat) calculated using Einstein's equation (E=mc^2).
Too cool! :)
One thing that would be actually be quite useful to me would be if it understood what VAT meant - maybe with its value targeted on IP, or just the Google tld.
I have the crappy MacOS calculator, and being able to type a calculation into Google would be handy when a customer is on the phone (Google is quicker than our order system any day of the week, and I swear someone here eats calculators).
It would have to be a special case where + VAT means the same as * VAT, and also ignores usual operator precedence and do this calculation after all operations left of itself.
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5 + (2 * 2 * 2 * 33 445 566 * 1 000 * 3 456 789) = 9.24914117 × 10 (to the) 17 (power)
More about calculator.
Search for documents containing the terms 5+2*2*2*33445566*1000*3456789.
1.7976* 10 to the power 308
I wonder why? I thought the Googol was the largest imaginable number?
Perhaps :-( would be the better anwser.
So...
0 / 0 = 1 === 1 * 0 = 0
or:
0 / 0 = 0 === 0 * 0 = 0
or:
0 / 0 = 18798728972 === 18798728972 * 0 = 0
Doh!
In fact, any number (ad infinitum) supplied as the answer to 0 / 0, will always fit the pattern...thus the answer is undefinied, or else numerical identity is compromised.
Jordan
I just tried the same search in [alltheweb.com...] using a number in the format 01234 567890 and got an illegal operator message and it further said to use only + - * / = instead. Putting the number in "quotes" allowed me to do the search that I wanted.
How long has alltheweb had a calculator in it? Doesn't look as if it is as powerful as the google one though.
In conclusion: these numbers exist in maths and calculators, but in real live they might be the answer to nothing.
Regards,
Herenvardö
I would think that the number of atoms in the Universe is an extremely large (almost infinite by human comprehension), but still finite, number.
What a useless piece of information!
becuase :- litmus test for any NLP/AI processing agent.
I would think that the number of atoms in the Universe is an extremely large (almost infinite by human comprehension), but still finite, number.
Even this number is very small compared to the limits of the calculator.
Although, I haven't the time so far to recount this number by hand.
g1smd:
I've found this for you:
[pages.prodigy.net ]
Number of atoms in the universe even less than a googol.
Greetings,
Herenvardö
so,
2 * pi * radius of earth in miles
= 24,901.3164 miles... the circumference of the earth.
So dividing the circumference by 24 would result in the earth's Miles per Hour which is 1,037.5585 MPH.
If someone travels at this speed (around the earth's equator) opposite the earth's rotation the sun shouldn't move; correct?
What if they travel faster? would they be going back in time?
woah.. google and webmasterworld got my gears turning..
Where's Marty McFly when you need him?
