Re: g**gle is also a calculator

From: Kevin Freels (megaquark@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 12:36:57 MDT

  • Next message: Anders Sandberg: "Re: g**gle is also a calculator"

    wow! I thought you were joking, so I tried it. I Tried mach1.6 and got "mach
    1.6 = 544.46400 m / s"

    I tried "c^2="
    and got "the speed of light^2 = 8.987 551 79 × 1016 m2 / s2"

    Then I thought I would get silly and punch in some totally useless numbers.
    I tried the following:
    "pi*c^2/g=" just for kicks. It returned:
    (pi * (the speed of light^2)) / gram = 2.82352267 × 1020 m2 kg-1 s-2

    Finally I tried "75 fahrenheit=" and it returned "75 degrees Fahrenheit =
    23.8888889 degrees Celsius"

    Wow! That's all I can say!

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
    To: "extropians" <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:18 AM
    Subject: Re: g**gle is also a calculator

    >
    > Holy f***ing s**t! I didn't believe this at first so I actually
    > tried it. Alejandro is right. It even does conversions, e.g.
    > "J to ergs"
    > This probably effectively replaces the very old UNIX "units" program.
    >
    > It doesn't do "time to dismantle the earth" (which is in my paper
    > on planetary disassembly) but one can't have everything (at least
    > not yet...)
    >
    > Robert
    >
    > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
    >
    > > i read, so i tested:
    > > "(6 + 4)" = 6 + 4 = 10 it says
    > > "radius of the earth / c" tells me "radius of Earth / the speed of light
    > > = 21.2750516 milliseconds"
    > > and then I try:
    > > "G * mass of the earth / radius of the earth squared" gives me
    > > "(gravitational constant * mass of Earth) / (radius of Earth squared) =
    > > 9.79982305 m / s2"
    > >
    > > Do not utter its name in vain.
    > >
    > >
    >
    >

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