{"id":14631,"date":"2003-08-26T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/google-calculator\/"},"modified":"2003-08-26T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-26T16:39:00","slug":"google-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/google-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I resisted posting about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html#calculator\" target=\"_blank\">Google Calculator<\/a> until I found out about its &ldquo;undocumented&rdquo; features.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2003\/08\/14\/fun_with.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Waxy.org<\/a> does such a great job in his post that I&rsquo;m quoting verbatim here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google&rsquo;s new calculator is a fun diversion, with several undocumented new features.  Here&rsquo;s a few.  (Kottke has some more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/03\/08\/030814fun_with_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">impractical uses<\/a>.  Please post more as you find them.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How long can you play a 30GB iPod without repeating a song?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=30+gigabytes+%2F+160+kbps\" target=\"_blank\">18.2 days<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>How much hard drive space does one hour of 128kbps MP3s consume?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=1+hour+*+128+kbps+in+megabytes\" target=\"_blank\">56.25 megabytes<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>How many seconds in a decade?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=one+decade+in+seconds\" target=\"_blank\">315,569,260<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=98.6+fahrenheit+in+centigrade\" target=\"_blank\">37 degrees<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>How many feet in a <a href=\"http:\/\/info.astrian.net\/jargon\/terms\/s\/smoot.html\" target=\"_blank\">smoot<\/a>?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=how+many+feet+in+a+smoot\" target=\"_blank\">5.58<\/a> (via Ryan)<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>What&rsquo;s the answer to life, the universe and everything?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=answer+to+life%2C+the+universe+and+everything\" target=\"_blank\">42<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>What&rsquo;s the answer to life, the universe and everything multiplied by the speed of light divided by three teaspoons?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=answer+to+life%2C+the+universe+and+everything+*+speed+of+light+%2F+3+teaspoons\" target=\"_blank\">8.51523871 \u00d7 10<sup>14<\/sup> m<sup>-2<\/sup> s<sup>-1<\/sup><\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>What&rsquo;s the speed of a Delorean going back in time?  Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=1.21+gigawatts+*+88mph\" target=\"_blank\">47,600,819,200 m<sup>3<\/sup> kg\/s<sup>4<\/sup><\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/overstated.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cam<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There are other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html\" target=\"_blank\">web search features<\/a>, some of which I hadn&rsquo;t heard about and are pretty cool&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106191596687780562?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I resisted posting about the Google Calculator until I found out about its &ldquo;undocumented&rdquo; features. Waxy.org does such a great job in his post that I&rsquo;m quoting verbatim here: Google&rsquo;s new calculator is a fun diversion, with several undocumented new features. Here&rsquo;s a few. (Kottke has some more impractical uses. Please post more as you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/google-calculator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Calculator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}