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on second thought, its bad enough that some of our clients think the google entry box is where you type the site URL :) do we really want to encorage them?
[edited by: amznVibe at 2:00 am (utc) on Aug. 13, 2003]
Check it out, Google gave me the mathematical proof that girls are evil!
1. Girls require time and money, G = (T * M).
2. Time is money, G = (T * M) = M˛;.
3. 'Money is the root of all evil', G = √Evil˛.
4. Girls are evil, G = Evil.
;D
Jordan
Ps. I'm not sure if the sqr. root symbol will show up right on here or not since it is part of the extended set.
1 calorie
but you cannot get the answer to
1 joule
:(
but you cannot get the answer to1 joule
1 joule in calorie [google.com] gives: 1 Joule = 0.239005736 calorie
You can use the 'in xxx' to indicate how the result should be converted. Joule is a derived SI unit, calorie is not so when you want to convert to calorie you need to specify that.
420 pixels =?mm @96dpi
or
123mm =?pixels @250dpi
or
#FF6688 =?R,G,B as float (0-1)
or
#FF6688 =?R,G,B as byte
But I guess I'll just stick to using my own little calculators for that :)
- edit yeah I know I could break the colours up, get the results and divide them by 255 for a 0-1 float but why should I have to! Give me and inch and I want a mile ;P
I am glad to see google increasing their usefullness. There is no reason to dumb down advanced search operators - as people don't need to know about them to use google.
Off the subject TheDave, but have you seen these:
http://www.visibone.com/color/kilochart.html
I have a couple posters and gave one to a friend. The look great for a webmasters office - makes you look like you know what you are doing :)
And you can do measurements in googols
http://www.google.com/search?c2coff=1&q=.000000000000000000001+in+googols
Does even greater than x^100 - cool - guess I can't crash it or get a big E on it.
Why not expand the documentation a little? And currency conversion would be nice too...
"d" in ASCII
becuase
It stops somewhere just after 1.797693134 * 10 ^ 308, which is more than a Googol cubed.
couple+few
bunch+1
how much is a nickel and a dime?
how big (tall) is a half pint?
how long is a yard plus a foot in inches?
how much is an ace and a king in blackjack?
how much is infinity divided by one?
how many is me, myself & I?
Whether by shear luck or whatever, I AM truly impressed the answer to:
Where did the extra dollar go?
comes up with many correct website results but no calculator results!
As does
How much is Bill Gates worth?
It is also fairly accurate differentiating between minutes and seconds of time vs. degrees if asked properly.
How much is a minute and a second (in degrees)?
But I could not find a simple way to get it to tell me how many feet this is on the earth's surface.
Also It does not know that a company is two or that three is a crowd.
And while I was also impressed it DID know
how much is a fortnight plus a day? (15)
how much is half a baker's dozen and? (6.5)
how much is a bushel and a peck in ounces? (~1489)
It did NOT know
how much is a bushel and a peck in (terms of) love?
:-)
Great work!
I've barely heard of a peck.
You've heard it lots of times, I'm sure:
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
I tried "golden mean squared" and got
golden ratio squared = 2.618033988 etc.
This is the golden ratio PLUS 2!
Isn't the correct answer 0.381965 etc.?
Isn't the Golden Mean 0.618033?
(The square root of 5 minus 1, quantity divided by 2).
(Solution to: X squared = 1 - x)
What gives?
GG wrote: Hawkgirl, we have not yet begun to geek.
2 fathoms * the boltzmann constant...
Sorry GG -- there is only one of me, but I constantly playing both sides.
Shak made the same mistake as well, so you're in good company! ;)
googol
1 googol = 1.0 × 10^100
[futureboy.homeip.net...]
There's an online converter at:
[futureboy.homeip.net...]
Interestingly, some of Google's answers are simply wrong--they haven't researched the quantities well enough. They don't know the difference between a statute mile and an international mile, for example, making all units dependent on these definitions outright wrong.
I think I have most of the facilities that y'all are looking for, and I can do more complex expressions, too. I do currency conversions, language translations, historical currency devaluations for the dollar and the pound, and I probably have every weird unit of measurement that you guys have been saying is missing. And it's a lot more customizable.
Frink is also a full-fledged programming language, not just a one-line calculator. I've also built "Frink Server Pages" which can be used to use Frink as a language to drive webpages or as a back-end service.
But who can compete against the almighty Google? :)
Any suggestions?
Adversely affects people with conversion calc sites :(
With google toolbar, calculation results are one click away :)
Adversely affects people with conversion calc sites
true. what's next, actual content on Google? Oh wait, they've already got Google Answers and phonebook...
amazing stuff, eliasen
Any suggestions?
I forgot to mention that Frink also does timezone conversions (as well as conversion to systems like Julian Day, Modified Julian Day, Dynamical Time, etc.) The relevant section of the documentation is:
[futureboy.homeip.net...]
You can also do date-time math--like figuring out how many days until Christmas or when you're a billion seconds old.
Frink can also be one-click too. The docs show several ways. It even runs on your system when you're not connected to the internet.
I envy the Google calculator because it gets to decide what calculations it wants to do, and thus doesn't have to have an unambiguous syntax. I don't have that luxury. ;)
Really cool tool-the calculator addon!
Timezones would be nice & also currency conversion. Is this going to be available via the API?
