Comments on: Units in Google Calculator

By: Minh Nguyễn

Minh Nguyễn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haha, I tried to get Google Calculator to convert Metric units at all, and I came up with this: http://www.google.com/search?q=1+centimeter+%3D

By: Minh Nguyễn

Minh Nguyễn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, I finally got it to recognize a Metric unit: • http://www.google.com/search?q=1+petameter+%3D • http://www.google.com/search?q=1+terameter+%3D • http://www.google.com/search?q=1+yoctometer+%3D

By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To convert metric units, you have to tell it what to convert to. For example, http://www.google.com/search?q=1+cm+in+inches .

By: Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One interesting point – Google UK should really be defaulting to UK units surely? Here’s an example query that’s “wrong”:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1/2%20pint

That’s a search for half a pint on UK Google, which should be “284.130742 millilitres”. Nope, we get:

“236.588237 milliliters”

Yes, it’s given me back the US pint conversion *and* spelled “millilitres” in US English ! Turns out I can get the imperial (UK) pint by adding UK to the query:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1/2%20UK%20pint
(and still the spelling is US English, ho hum)

Seems like Google can’t be bothered to Anglicise their new calculator toy for their UK portal (mind you, I’ve wondered why http://www.google.co.uk/ doesn’t default to searching for UK sites – surely you’d go to http://www.google.com/ if you wanted to search the entire Web?).

By: Joe Grossberg

Joe Grossberg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They also have mathematical constants like:
* e
* i
* pi
* euler’s constant

Centimeter, schmentimeter; you can do stuff like 1 knot in angstroms per century.

By: Eric Hodel

Eric Hodel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to know the difference in US feet vs International feet.

http://gssp.wva.net/html.common/feet.html