# Google - what's the weirdest conversion you can find?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 9, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542 "2005-06-09T02:01:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/1 "2005-06-09T02:01:44Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/2 "2005-06-09T03:26:21Z")
Can we have a link? I can’t seem to find a “google converter”, but I’m tired, so that could be the issue as well.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/3 "2005-06-09T03:58:00Z")
[3 (rods per millisecond) = 90 720 000 furlongs per fortnight](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=3+rods+per+millisecond+in+furlongs+per+fortnight&btnG=Search)
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/4 "2005-06-09T04:07:16Z")
1 mile per gallon = 0.18731261 light-years per cubic mile
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/5 "2005-06-09T04:24:53Z")
40 (angstroms per minute) = 1.30723765 × 10^-06 miles per year
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### Author:  [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/6 "2005-06-09T04:46:14Z")
42 (cubits per hour) = 4.31289616 × 10-08 Astronomical Units per fortnight
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/7 "2005-06-09T04:55:56Z")
1 Imperial pint = 1.93417364 × 10[sup]-53[/sup] cubic Parsecs
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### Author:  [@whatsittoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatsittoya)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/8 "2005-06-09T08:39:06Z")
[The answer to life the universe and everything=42](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything&btnG=Search)
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### Author:  [@whatsittoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatsittoya)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/9 "2005-06-09T08:41:29Z")
Oops, I didn’t look at the other thread. Somebody already pointed that one out.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/10 "2005-06-09T09:15:38Z")
5 (furlongs per fortnight) = 8.50414967 × 10[sup]-11[/sup] Parsecs per century
For some reason, it won’t tell me 20 psi in ounces per acre.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/11 "2005-06-09T09:26:28Z")
According to the units program installed on my Linux box, 20 pound/in^2 = 2.0072528e+09 oz/acre.
In addition, 5 mi/hogshead = 1.1111089 league/barrel, which is something else Google choked on.
(units rules, Google drools! Svaha! :p)
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### Author:  [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/12 "2005-06-09T10:52:43Z")
3 000 (spans per lunar month) = 4 638 099.83 fathoms per millenium
I wanted to use chains, but no dice.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/13 "2005-06-09T15:35:40Z")
Oddly, Google won’t do 9.8 meters per second squared in miles per hour squared.
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### Author:  [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/14 "2005-06-09T15:45:11Z")
the speed of light = 3.72461748 × 10^18 inches per decade
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/15 "2005-06-09T17:44:25Z")
Ah, but can anybody come up with unusual units that are roughly equivalent? Mine are within one order of magnitude.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/16 "2005-06-10T00:03:18Z")
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:
1. Within a factor of ten of each other
2. in the wackiest, most arcane, obscure units and
3. can still be converted by Google.
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(cubic cubits surprised the Hell out of me. Google can really calculate that)
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-whats-the-weirdest-conversion-you-can-find/307542/17 "2005-06-10T00:35:46Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#):
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> (cubic cubits surprised the Hell out of me. Google can really calculate that)
It does math on those odd units too:
(1 US bushel) + (1 US peck) = 0.46090966 cubic cubits