Sometimes, Google is just scarily cool
Sep. 23rd, 2003 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurThey apparently added a seriously funky calculator to Google while I wasn't looking. Besides doing all the usual mathematical calculations, it knows about pretty much every kind of unit they could think of. We discovered this at work when one of my co-workers tried typing "how many milliseconds in a day" when he was feeling too lazy to calculate it himself, and it gave him the answer.
Try typing "0x7d3 in roman numerals" (one of their examples) into the Google search bar. Yes, it can do conversions from hexadecimal to roman. Or "2.4 cubits in parsecs". That is so pointlessly neat that it wins major geek points...
Try typing "0x7d3 in roman numerals" (one of their examples) into the Google search bar. Yes, it can do conversions from hexadecimal to roman. Or "2.4 cubits in parsecs". That is so pointlessly neat that it wins major geek points...