There was a recent thread similar to this but it only mentioned about the Google converter being versatile, etc.
So, how about a challenge? (Strictly for fun of course).
Let’s see who can come up with the weirdest conversion that Goggle can actually calculate. (Let’s stay away from fortnights and furlongs - those have been worked to death).
Okay, here’s my first entry:**
443.471026 (carats per US fluid ounce) = 3.0 × 10[sup]12[/sup] stones per (cubic nautical mile)
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Granted, “carats per US fluid ounce” to “stones per cubic nautical mile” is a very common conversion we probably have to calculate every day but heck - we have to start somewhere.
Well Robot Arm, I decided to fool around with my original entry and came up with this handy dandy conversion factor: 1 carat per cubic inch = 0.183676559 stones per cubic cubit
Yours is slightly closer to equality though.
However, I think the units I chose were a lot more unusual.
Miles per gallon is a relatively common (though archaic) way of expressing gas mileage.
Does anybody measure density in carats per cubic inch or stones per cubic cubit? Well if they do, they now know how to convert it.
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Anyway, I like the challenge you have presented to the SDMB.
Okay let’s try to have conversions that are:
Within a factor of ten of each other
in the wackiest, most arcane, obscure units and
can still be converted by Google.
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(cubic cubits surprised the Hell out of me. Google can really calculate that)