Google Calculator is a hidden feature of Google search. You can type math expressions, unit conversions and many other questions that have a unique answer.
What's the answer to life, the universe and everything?
Answer: 42 (see
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
How many seconds in a decade?
Answer: 315 569 260 seconds
Speed of light
Answer: 299 792 458 m / s
17 to binary
Answer: 0b10001
e^((pi)*i)+1
Answer: 0
10th root of 1024
Answer: 2
Half a cup in teaspoons
Answer: 24 US teaspoons
Ounces in a shot
Answer: 1.5 US fluid ounces
When is Easter 2006?
Answer:
(Western) April 16, 2006
(Orthodox) April 23, 2006
Earth mass in kg
Answer: 5.9742 × 10
24 kilograms
I wrote a keyboard interface for the Google Calculator.
It can be found at:
http://www.xnumber.com/google_calc.htm
I'd appreciate any comments or sugestions about this feature I'd like to propose Google.
Also, if you know how to approach Google with an idea like this, please let me know.
Thanks!
said on June 26, 2007 10:59 AM PDT:
Thanks for Google Calculator. It;s great.
said on September 6, 2007 4:49 AM PDT:
Is the calculator getting dumber?
Some of these examples do not seem to work now (September 2007).
By "not work", I mean doing a google search does not invoke the calculator on those.
Half of them (5) did not work on some of my trials.
"Half a cup in teaspoons" seems to work some times, but not always.
Try it on server 72.14.207.107 .
The other four I can't get to work at all.
See also
blogoscoped.
Most work. The only examples that don't work:
Ounces in a shot
Half a cup in teaspoons
Maybe Google things these queries aren't very appropriate for an instant answer.
said on September 7, 2007 11:46 AM PDT:
Tony Ruscoe
noted at blogoscoped that the queries are case sensitive. In nine of the ten examples using the case Google recognizes will invoke the calculator.
ihope said on September 11, 2007 4:29 PM PDT:
Looks to me that, for example, "half a cup in teaspoons" works while "Half a cup in teaspoons" does not. Does this match with all your experiences?
Marius said on June 3, 2008 4:19 AM PDT:
yeah same here , if I use capitals won`t work. maybe there are few conversions in some units that are case sensitive.
jnazor said on July 6, 2008 9:30 PM PDT:
try this:
-15 in two's complement
Marius said on July 7, 2008 2:23 AM PDT:
17 to binary
Answer: 0b10001
does anyone knows how to transform from binary back ?
said on October 1, 2008 3:06 PM PDT:
i can't even get it to frickin' work!!
said on October 5, 2008 11:58 AM PDT:
How many smoots in a mile
