Yes Chad, this is yet another gay-ass entry, but I think it may actually be useful for some of you out there. It seems like our friends over at Google have added a new tool to their already varied repertoire, a calculator. Not only does it do addition, subtraction, etc, it does them in plain language, includes such values as gravity and the speed of light, and does unit conversions. The Washington Post even included this example: What is the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight? I'll leave it to the real math geeks to check its accuracy.
Posted by at August 18, 2003 10:08 AMI found that feature accidentally on my own. I had derived an equation here at work (1/24*m*l^2), and it looked familiar, so I went to do a search on Google to see if it popped up anywhere. Instead of getting search results, I got 4.16666667 × 10^-08 m^7.
My question, though, how do you know what values they're using for the constants? Like in my search, what happened to the "l" ? And how did the "m" end up being raised to the seventh power?
Posted by: Fatboy at August 18, 2003 10:52 AM