Taking accurate search results too far?

[fluffymark]

Typing “1 a day” into Google results in a single hit, which delights my inner physicist:

1 a day = 1.15740741 × 10^-05 hertz

Totally accurate. And yet, totally useless. I wonder if there are any more silly results like that?

*playswithgoogle* la la la....

oh yes!...googling for “teaspoon” gives the equally accurate result

1 US teaspoon = 4.92892161 milliliters

*amused* Now I can bake cakes with an accuracy to 9 significant figures. Or something. Um

*moreplayingwithgoogle* la la...

*eeeep!* Inevitable really - combining the above and googling for “teaspoons per day” gives the remarkable result that

1 US teaspoons per day = 5.70477039 × 10^-11 m³ / s

and even more silly, googling for “speed of light per pint” gives the truly astounding

the speed of light per US pint = 6.33574309 × 10¹¹ m^-2 s^-1

*amused*

Feel free to go and find even sillier ones. I strongly encourage it. *hopefulbounces*

Update

I've found a bug in Google! :) It thinks sidereal years are unitless!

1 sidereal year = 365.256363

That should, of course, be in days. But it isn't. Do i get a prize if I tell them? :)

Comments

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

speed of light per pint

Isn't that technically bollocks?

[zotz]

It's a valid unit. I can't think of anything you'd measure in it, but it's no weirder than the joule-second, which is what Planck's constant is a (very small) number of.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Well it's dimensionally correct, but where on earth are the numbers conjured up from?

[zotz]

3E8m/s divided by about 0.045m^3.

[zotz]

No. A pint's smaller than that. 0.00045m^3

[fluffymark]

Right, I'm moving to Scotland if pints are that size. :)

[zotz]

Only on special occasions.

[fluffymark]

No, it's entirely correct, just perverse and completely pointless.

However:

1 US pints per millenium = 1.49943779 × 10^-14 m³ / s

might sound like it might make sense regarding the amount drank on a certain night a few years back, but that doesn't turn out to be very much according to Google. :)