Fun with Google's Calculator

I hadn't realized they had implemented this feature until yesterday when someone asked me how many miles were in a light year (he was having an argument about whether the Star Trek Voyager could make it back to Earth).



No dice: "What is the average airspeed of an unladen swallow?".

More no dice: "head of pin / angels"

A continuing absence of dice: "weight of rock god cannot lift"

Dicelessness: "roads a man must walk down"

No for:



wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could

chuck wood

licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop

the loneliest number

maids a' milking

deadly sins



Those Stanford Ph.D nerds at Google aren't even trying.

Another hole in the google calculator that misses one of life's great riddles:

Can Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he could not eat it?

I'm assuming that Google just hooked in an existing calculator program, and have been desperately searching the net to figure out which one, but I can't find it! GNU Units is close, but not quite it, I don't think.

Smoots!

The question is not whether an MIT Alumnus developed the Google calculator, but which one.

The answer depends on how excited you get. What's the answer to life the universe and everything!? Answer: 1.40500612 x 10^51

Having this available on my cell phone looks to be very handy indeed...

I'm sure we'll see a Google magic 8 ball very soon.

If you enter "3867*2," click Search, and then turn your monitor upside-down, it say aich-ee-double-hockey-sticks. Hee hee!

It was implemented in-house by someone who did not attend MIT.

Is being a geek a bad thing? :)

For the Delorean traveling through time you should divide by the weight of a Delorean in Kgs which gives you 37 778 427.9 m3 / s4 which makes sense if you consider the fact that you would be traveling in 4th dimensional space

"Is being a geek a bad thing? :)
ravensong"

Na, it's what we're here for :)
www.thegeekgroup.org

Got this one from scribot:

answer to life the universe and everything = 42

It also knows what a Googol is, and knows numbers all the way up to one vigintillion.

1 Nebuchadnezzar / 1 Jeroboam - 1 Magnum in puncheons

In response to the question of which MIT geek did the calculator, anon is right--I was at a Search Strategies show last week, and either Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google) or one of their engineers was talking about the calc function--it was done in house as a kind of side project, and when the folks at Google heard about it, they thought it was cool so they cleaned it up and implemented it. At least, that's what they were saying.

1 hogshead=52.5 gallons

I take that back,
1 hogshead = 63 gallons.

The only problem with the ipod example is that 30GB ipod hard drives contain 30 billion bytes, not this many. so your answer is more like this (adjusting for a more realistic bitrate)

The Real Answer to Life The Universe and Everything

Thanks AlphaGeek :) nice page btw.

Mwah!!.. it's refreshing

Here are mine ... http://www.donolog.com/archives/000466.html

No, you need to DIVIDE by 88MPH.

1.21GW / 88MPH

The answer is expressed in Newtons, a unit of acceleration (force).

We all know that acceleration warps space-time from the disney movie "Black Hole", right?

They may have more calcualtors (for the time being), but at least I think I can beat them with content on my calculator site WebCalc.

Wait, isn't the speed of a Delorean going back in time just 88 mph?

42 is a bogus answer because later in te book the question to the answer seems to be "Five Times Nine" (=54) and Arthur says "I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe".

1 furlong per fortnight = 0.000166309524 m / s

The lights of Lady Liberty's Torch in horsepower? Answer: 17.4

The volume of the earth in faggots? Answer: 4.0784869 × 10^21