New google calculator feature

Google Calculator feature ^ | August 13, 2003 | me

[ChemistCat]

OH, great. Now I can seek the answer to 1392 divided by 7.2, and get gay porn back.

[billhilly]

Monica goes to the cleaners with a dress and tells the clerk, who is slightly hard of hearing, "I would like to have this stain removed." cupping a hand to his ear, he said, "come again?" " Horse radish" , said Monica.

[kevkrom]

"3 iced teas in Al gore""

That equals several conveniently "missed" meetings

[Amore]

Thanks for the conversion links, I definitely need and will use them.

[pgkdan]

BUMP

[BushCountry]

How do you get the thing to convert a base 2 number to decimal?

example: 111111 base2 to base10

[aruanan]

It's great. Thanks for pointing it out.

[discostu]

You've got to use computer style shorthand, so prefix your binary number in 0b (that's zero be), then ask for it in decimal.

[cc2k]

Wow, Check out c in furlongs per fortnight

and my diesel VW Jetta's top speed in parsecs per decade.

It also knows a whole lot of constants. I haven't stumped it yet.

[Eva]

I see that google also has a pop up blocker with their tool bar, but I wish they had a dictionary browser button.

[SoothingDave]

Here is how to convert celsius to fahrenheit in your head. Take 25 degrees c as an example. First double the number to 50. Now take off 10% to 45. Add 32 and you have 77 degrees f.

Too complicated. Just double it and add 30.

Another rule of thumb - a picoparsec is just about a quarter mile.

SD

[Poincare]

Will it solve topology problems?

I'm a frayed knot.

[supercat]

Another rule of thumb - a picoparsec is just about a quarter mile.

Tom Duff came up with "Pi seconds is a nanocentury" awhile ago. Pretty close

Another useful engineering one is "Light travels about a foot per nanosecond". Also pretty close.

[supercat]

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck+chuck+if+a+woodchuck+could+chuck+wood&btnG=Google+Search

Hmm... reminds me of the time I asked the Oracle "How many woodchucks would a wood chipper chip if a wood chipper would chip woodchucks." I think the answer as about a herd/hour.

[Drago]

How do you do Cubic Liters(or cc's) to Cubic Inches???
I tried "5.2 cubic liters equals cubic inches" & "5200 cc equals cubic inches" "5200 cc = inches^3" No luck!!!

[Fzob]

Very cool, Thanks

[Keith in Iowa]

>> Too complicated. Just double it and add 30.

That makes a 6-pack 42 metric beers :)

[supercat]

I tried "5.2 cubic liters equals cubic inches" & "5200 cc equals cubic inches" "5200 cc = inches^3" No luck!!!

The magic word is "in".

5200 cc in cubic inches

[Drago]

5.2 liter = 318 cid PING!

[Drago]

Never mind...I figured it out:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=5.2+liters+in+cubic+inches
"In" is the key word...