Comments on: Google Calculator

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:48:43 +0000

I am SO dependant on google calculator. Taking IPC as an eighth grader, I still haven’t mastered how many cups are in a pint, how many pints are in a quart, how many feet are in a mile, etc. I LOVE google calculator!

By: Kevin Ballard

Kevin Ballard — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:44:09 +0000

Amusingly, Google Calculator knows what a “smoot” is. Try it! “1 smoot in feet”. Or if you want something interesting, try “1 joule in kg smoot^2 / fortnight^2″

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By: Rhett Sutphin

Rhett Sutphin — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:52:01 +0000

For historical currency values, I’ve found What Is Its Relative Value in US Dollars? interesting. Not only does it convert US dollar amounts for years from 1789 to 2004, it does it 5 different ways and explains what they all mean.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:05:05 +0000

Fab: no such luck on the English google … what a rip! However I will note that your google.de doesn’t seem to work for ohter languages (e.g. en-es), and also that the link to the dictionary isn’t quite as immediate as I would like. For typical google calculator results, you get the result to the exclusion of all other web results - no further clicking required!

By: Fab

Fab — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:23:49 +0000

I don’t know about google.com, but in the german google.de there alreaday is a quick translation integrated. Just type a word and ad “en-de” (for english to german) and it links you to a translation page.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:04:39 +0000

Thanks Matt for reminding me about Dave’s Measure application. It is definitely cool, albeit a bit more in the direction of “hecka more units” than what I’m requesting for Google. I think it would be cool if Google were to say buy all of Dave’s cool units data and augment Google Calculator with them, but also add more humanities-oriented calculations like language and currency translations.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:40:42 +0000

The biggest thing missing from Google is membership to TRUSTe. Privacy concern from google is the main reason why I am leaving gmail and blogger. Saying, “do no evil” is not enough for me.

By: Matt Deatherage

Matt Deatherage — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:21:32 +0000

You all want Measure by Dave Lyons, at least if your’e on Mac OS X. It’s not Google, but it provides a full stack-based calculator and all the units you want.

Typing “1 MaH” in Measure gives “0.001 ampere hours (electric charge)” on the stack. You can’t type “1 martian year”, but you can type “orbital period of Mars” and get back “orbital period of Mars: 1.88 years (time interval)” on the stack. Type “=days” next and you get “orbital period of Mars: 687 days (time interval)“.

It doesn’t do currency conversions, but it’s very cool in many ways. Sure, Google Calculator takes “1 kg * c^2″ and returns “.98755179 × 1016 joules”, but Measure returns “21.480 764 310 2 megatons of TNT (energy, torque)“.

Megatons of TNT.

Now that’s cool.

By: keith

keith — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:59:15 +0000

i love google calculator too. i used to wish it could do more electrical calculations, like

1mAh in aH

i too always think “milli” equals millionths, but it is in fact thousandths. unfortunately this doesn’t work in google, but after reading your article i played with google calculator some more and found that it will perform the calculations. it just wasn’t recognizing my short hand. you must spell it out and then it will work.

1 milliamp hours in amp hours

i believe google calculator needs a broader vocabulary, especially in abbriations. they also need to post a complete vocaulary list. they do support many astronomical units, but i’d like to see additial orbits added. like 1 martian year in earth days, for all the planets and moons. also has anybody figured out if it will do degrees, minutes, seconds?