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120cm to inches

17 points by rvnx 2y ago

geoah 2y ago
> 120 metres = 4724.409 inches
sottol 2y ago
"120 cm in inches" (with space) works. Annoying. AI feature, I assumed, but now you're just always second guessing.
- ChrisGranger 2y ago
  The link, as posted, worked fine for me.
  - chrismcb 2y ago
    It have me the meter to inch conversion. Not the cm to inch conversion.
  - kibibu 2y ago
    How many inches does it yield?
    - ChrisGranger 2y ago
      47.2441
deleted 2y ago
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hex4def6 2y ago
seems like 1-106cm is fine, and then it stays incorrect up until 199cm, at which point it's correct again. Truly a bit of a wtf.
leoedin 2y ago
Google search has got noticeably worse recently. Unit conversions (like the linked one) have been broken for weeks. They got rid of the “map” link for a while - so suddenly there was no easy way to search for a business and then view it on a map. They messed around with product search to make it less useful. I suppose this is a case of product managers justifying their existence by changing things.
hildenae 2y ago
Is the answer not supposed to be ~47.24 inches?
- ChrisGranger 2y ago
  Yeah, I'm not really sure why people are talking like this feature on Google isn't working. We must be missing something... (unless it was a transient bug).
  - fgeiger 2y ago
    To me, google shows a conversion tool: "120 metres = 4724,409 inches". Note that it confused the unit cm vs m.
- plorkyeran 2y ago
  It parses the request as 120m for me (and presumably the submitter), resulting in 4724 inches rather than 47.24.
lexicality 2y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=120cm+to+inches https://duckduckgo.com/?q=120cm+to+inches
- anotherhue 2y ago
  https://kagi.com/search?q=120cm+to+inches&r=us&sh=MJN_bOjTakYi0jEB78WRcQ https://kagi.com/search?q=120cm+to+inches&r=us&sh=MJN_bOjTak...
  - ChrisGranger 2y ago
    https://search.brave.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://search.brave.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=120+cm+in+inches&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=120+cm+in+inches&c... https://stract.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://stract.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches
dc3k 2y ago
I used Bing’s co-pilot the other day to ask “if I travel 1km in 6 minutes how many kph am I going?” and it told me that I would be travelling at 600 kilometres per hour.
ChrisGranger 2y ago
Was this posted to show that Google answers queries like this? Many search engines have this feature.
- rvnx 2y ago
  no, it was to show that the answers to basic conversions were completely incorrect
dontdieych 2y ago
If you are KDE Plasma user, <Alt-Space> 120cm [to in] '100 usd to eur' also working.

120cm to inches

17 points by rvnx 2y ago

geoah 2y ago

> 120 metres = 4724.409 inches

sottol 2y ago

"120 cm in inches" (with space) works. Annoying. AI feature, I assumed, but now you're just always second guessing.

ChrisGranger 2y ago
The link, as posted, worked fine for me.
- chrismcb 2y ago
  It have me the meter to inch conversion. Not the cm to inch conversion.
- kibibu 2y ago
  How many inches does it yield?
  - ChrisGranger 2y ago
    47.2441

deleted 2y ago

[deleted]

hex4def6 2y ago

seems like 1-106cm is fine, and then it stays incorrect up until 199cm, at which point it's correct again. Truly a bit of a wtf.

leoedin 2y ago

Google search has got noticeably worse recently. Unit conversions (like the linked one) have been broken for weeks. They got rid of the “map” link for a while - so suddenly there was no easy way to search for a business and then view it on a map. They messed around with product search to make it less useful. I suppose this is a case of product managers justifying their existence by changing things.

hildenae 2y ago

Is the answer not supposed to be ~47.24 inches?

ChrisGranger 2y ago
Yeah, I'm not really sure why people are talking like this feature on Google isn't working. We must be missing something... (unless it was a transient bug).
- fgeiger 2y ago
  To me, google shows a conversion tool: "120 metres = 4724,409 inches". Note that it confused the unit cm vs m.
plorkyeran 2y ago
It parses the request as 120m for me (and presumably the submitter), resulting in 4724 inches rather than 47.24.

lexicality 2y ago

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=120cm+to+inches https://duckduckgo.com/?q=120cm+to+inches

anotherhue 2y ago
https://kagi.com/search?q=120cm+to+inches&r=us&sh=MJN_bOjTakYi0jEB78WRcQ https://kagi.com/search?q=120cm+to+inches&r=us&sh=MJN_bOjTak...
- ChrisGranger 2y ago
  https://search.brave.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://search.brave.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=120+cm+in+inches&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=120+cm+in+inches&c... https://stract.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches https://stract.com/search?q=120+cm+in+inches

dc3k 2y ago

I used Bing’s co-pilot the other day to ask “if I travel 1km in 6 minutes how many kph am I going?” and it told me that I would be travelling at 600 kilometres per hour.

ChrisGranger 2y ago

Was this posted to show that Google answers queries like this? Many search engines have this feature.

rvnx 2y ago
no, it was to show that the answers to basic conversions were completely incorrect

dontdieych 2y ago

If you are KDE Plasma user, <Alt-Space> 120cm [to in] '100 usd to eur' also working.