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Just out of curiosity, why use W|A for unit conversions vs. using Google's calculator for that?
by dmd 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, why use W|A for unit conversions vs. using Google's calculator for that?
- capnrefsmmat 13y agoBecause W|A can tell me that the caloric equivalent of the molasses spilled in the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 is 36 kilotons of TNT: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Calories+in+2300000+gallons+of+molasses%29+in+kilotons+of+TNT http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Calories+in+2300000+... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster So you can do unit conversions with all sorts of weird facts, like the nutritional content of molasses.