Silliest Google conversion

August 29, 2005 by Oliver
Filed under: Google, Technology 

1 mile in km
4 weeks in days
4.9 lightyears in au

You can even use compound units:

55 mph in m/s
20 N/(m^2) in Pascals

In fact you can use arbitrary compund units. The silliest I managed to find is:

2 great gross speed of light in bakers dozen furlongs per year

A great gross is 12 gross (a gross is 144).
A bakers dozen is 13.
A furlong is 220 yards.

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  1. bob hewitt on Wed, 21st Dec 2005 5:24 pm

    2. < ![CDATA[In fact you can use arbitrary compund units. The silliest I managed to find is:

    'compound', above. Thanks for the examples...]]>

  2. Fun with Google calculator - Oliver Brown on Sat, 13th Jan 2007 6:10 pm

    3. < ![CDATA[[...] h, 2007 by Oliver

    I&#8217;ve talked about the clever calculator features built into Google before. Most of my examples then were r [...] ]]>