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I've always been frustrated by how Google's unit conversion doesn't integrate well with its calculator.
by foota 9y ago
I've always been frustrated by how Google's unit conversion doesn't integrate well with its calculator.
- olegkikin 9y agoThat's why 99% of the time there's no need to use the calculator, just type your formula straight into the search.
- JetSpiegel 9y agoAnd use a remote server with at least 1RTT of delay to do basic arithmetic. Big Data indeed.
- olegkikin 9y agoIt's not so basic though. Google knows the current value of most currencies, for instance. It's actually more efficient for the central servers to pull that data and the clients to query once in a while, rather than every single client (local calculator) to constantly keep all that data up to date. And that's just the currencies.
- JetSpiegel 9y agoHow many times in you lifetime does the inches-meters conversion rate will change? Currencies I can understand hitting a remote server, but general unit conversion and basic arithmetic?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAlso, how that statistic goes? Each Google search costs burns them about $1 in electricity costs? ;).
- jon_richards 9y agoHow is wolfram alpha? I always use it for more complicated pure math, but I don't think I ever used it for unit conversion.
- edejong 9y agoIt's great at unit conversions. You can do things like "number of milliseconds between amsterdam and paris at speed of sound". I use it all the time.
- brw 9y agoYour query doesn't exactly work though, it's interpreted as "paris at speed of sound". However "time between amsterdam and paris at the speed of sound in milliseconds" does work, returning 1.26*10^6 ms.