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Title: Goggle Calculator
Post by: Pala on July 31, 2006, 03:53:04 PM
I'm getting ready to order concrete and discovered that if you type the following into google:

"47520 cubic inches in cubic yards"

Goggle tells you:

"47 520 (cubic inches) = 1.01851852 cubic yards"

You can't beat that with a stick.

chuck.

Title: Re: Goggle Calculator
Post by: bartholomew on July 31, 2006, 05:41:26 PM
Yeah, it's real handy. Good for metric conversions. It doesn't understand all units/abbreviations though. ex. btu is ok, joule is ok, but therm isn't; it knows m, km, g and kg but not j or kj; it won't accept ' or " but ft and in are ok. You can use sq for square and cu for cubic.
Title: Re: Goggle Calculator
Post by: glenn kangiser on August 01, 2006, 01:30:58 AM
For things like this or nearly any other information you want, if you have MSN Messenger add a robot to your computer.

Encarta Instant answers will answer nearly anything you ask or find you a bunch of references.

Add [highlight]encarta@conversagent.com[/highlight] to your contacts list and you have a know it all friend who is nearly always there.

If not useful for anything else it is someone to play with when you are home alone without a friend. :'(
Title: Re: Goggle Calculator
Post by: benevolance on August 24, 2006, 11:47:23 PM
If not useful for anything else it is someone to play with when you are home alone without a friend.

Glenn

For a minute there I was having a flashback to the sex talk my dad with me about the birds and the bees....

Same line he used with me pretty much about self entertainment ;)

Title: Re: Goggle Calculator
Post by: glenn-k on August 25, 2006, 12:18:33 AM
You are such a bad boy, Peter. :-/