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

[wimble.livejournal.com]

The British Gravitational System...

The three base units are the foot, the second, and the pound-force.

In the BG system the mass unit is the slug and is defined from the Newton's Second Law (1). The unit of mass, the slug, was then derived from the pound-force by defining it as that mass that will accelerate at 1 foot per second per second when a 1 pound-force acts upon it:

1 lb = (1 slug)(1 ft/s²)
1 lb force acting on 1 slug mass will give the mass an acceleration of 1 ft/s².

All of which conveniently brings us to:

Slugs per Pint (http://www.google.com/search?q=slugs+per+pint)

[fluffymark]

Hooray!!!! If slugs is a unit then that means:

1 earth mass = 4.09362734 × 10²³ slugs

That's a lot of slugs. :)

[olithered.livejournal.com]

Also available for the non-yanks (http://www.google.com/search?q=slugs+per+imperial+pint).

[fluffymark]

Even better, this one:

1 slug bit = 3.05352661 × 10^-25 earth mass bytes