Taking accurate search results too far?
Oct. 22nd, 2004 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkTyping “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? :)
Re: Yes, but...
Date: 2004-10-22 10:10 am (UTC)Re: Yes, but...
Date: 2004-10-22 03:10 pm (UTC)Odd question:
Do sherpas live above the altitude that you can't heat water to 60° ? If so, how do they cook at all? Sixty's the minimum for pasteurisation and, while you can use an oven or a pan to roast or fry your food, the latent heat of vapourising water out of it will cool it very efficiently, up to and beyond the point that it's so dried-out as to be inedible. Overdone and still crawling with salmonella!