Taking accurate search results too far?
Oct. 22nd, 2004 09:49 amTyping “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? :)
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? :)
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:14 am (UTC)All of which conveniently brings us to:
Slugs per Pint (http://www.google.com/search?q=slugs+per+pint)
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:22 am (UTC)1 earth mass = 4.09362734 × 1023 slugs
That's a lot of slugs. :)
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-22 03:52 am (UTC)1 slug bit = 3.05352661 × 10-25 earth mass bytes