New google calculator feature

Google Calculator feature ^ | August 13, 2003 | me

[John Jorsett]

I just learned that google has implemented a calculator as part of their feature set. "Big deal," you might say, but one capability that I found very useful is its ability to convert units. Try entering "100 pints in gallons" (don't put quotes around it when entering it), or "5000 kilometers in furlongs". Very cool, at least to me. I can't tell you how often I have to do those pesky "angstroms <--> parsecs" conversions (ok, I jest, but it will do "100 degrees fahrenheit to celsius," which definitely IS useful). It can also do ordinary math, of course, for those occasions when you just want to dash off a quick calculation.

[Michael Barnes]

cool!

[StriperSniper]

It knows knots.

[null and void]

Forgive him Lord, he knows knot what he has done...

[Skooz]

ConvertIt.com has been a great help to me through the years. I am conversion challenged.

[putupon]

pretty good, thanks for the post

[John Jorsett]

It knows knots.

Yeah. In fact, any unit that I've tried throwing at it, it knows. It'll even do "100 in base 2" or "0b1100100 in base 8". Now I don't have to haul out my programmer's calculator.

[kevkrom]

Geek ping

[xm177e2]

I love my TI-89. That can do everything Google's calculator can do and more, and it's portable. And it's sexy.

[ChewedGum]

Wow! I entered "10 miles per hour to furlongs per fortnight" and its response was:

10 miles per hour = 26 880 furlongs per fortnight

This is way cool.

Gum

[John Jorsett]

ConvertIt.com has been a great help to me through the years. I am conversion challenged.

I've been using OnlineConversion.com up to now. I haven't found anything that it couldn't handle.

[StriperSniper]

Google may be the only thing leftists have ever gotten right. ;-)

[AndrewC]

Well thanks for the post. It sure will help in many ways.

[Lazamataz]

It doesn't work.

I just entered "3 payoffs in Clintons" and it just sits there.

[buccaneer81]

1 inches = 2.684 839 46 × 10-18 light years

Cool!

[hosepipe]

[I just entered "3 payoffs in Clintons" and it just sits there. ]

LOL................

[putupon]

It knows knots.

I know nought

00 spy

[Consort]

It knows knots.

"250 hitches to bends" don't work.

[1Old Pro]

cool!

Nope, it's hot, the blacks are unemplyed, there are too many guns, and bring the boys home.

explanation here: RUSH conversation with Boston woman.

[Frank_Discussion]

Somebody tell Lockheed...

;-)