Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Why Google is Great WAS Computer question
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:29:05 -0700
References: <296C2A0C-DD7D-11D7-B803-000393AC0E1A@johnbrownlow.com>

At 3:39 PM -0400 9/2/03, Johnny Deadman wrote:
>Most people don't realize how great Google is. For example, try 
>typing in the following:
>
>	(1 mile * 1 inch * 1 parsec) in tablespoons
>
>	4 pounds in ergs
>
>	1 league in nautical miles
>
>Awesome. It's great trying to find units that stump it.
>
>On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 02:43 PM, Mark S. Cohen wrote:
>
>>I work for a competitor of Google. (Though use Google on an 
>>minutely basis, just about.)
>>
>--
>John Brownlow

Converting pounds to ergs is a bit iffy.....

Also, Google doesn't seem to know that 100 prastha equals about 11.83 
ferk, something I'm sure old Arabians new when trading with points 
East.

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