Hellbent Posted February 18, 2013 I typed into google 17.2378 and this is what it spat out at me: Your search - 17.2378 RadDeg x! Inv sin ln π cos log e tan √ Ans EXP xy ( ) % AC 7 8 9 ÷ 4 5 6 × 1 2 3 - 0 . = + - did not match any documents. 0 Share this post Link to post
gggmork Posted February 18, 2013 Ctrl-f, search for "hillis" here: http://edge.org/responses/q2013 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted February 18, 2013 gggmork said:Ctrl-f, search for "hillis" here: http://edge.org/responses/q2013 and then he said:If you can make any sense of this post, congratulations 0 Share this post Link to post
Kirby Posted February 18, 2013 If you're confused by something in the article then specify and elaborate. If you are confused because you couldn't find the article then we may have a problem 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted February 18, 2013 Google has a mind of its own.... cleverbot sure doesn't. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted February 19, 2013 First result from DuckDuckGo was a link to Wolfram|Alpha 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted February 19, 2013 I got that number from adding up the three fill ups of gas for my car... My next move, before google decided to hijack my query, was to erase the number and then type in the number of miles I drove on said amount of gas, 755 and then divide it by the mystery number. Apparently the number 17 is really significant in math. My calc teacher would go on about it periodically. It's an extremely odd number, given that it's prime and comes after 16, which is an extremely orderly number. This is why you should do math using google: you might inadvertently learn something, even if you don't know what you learned. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted February 19, 2013 I happened to have a calculator handy, which spat out 43.7990926916 as the result. 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted February 19, 2013 gggmork said:Ctrl-f, search for "hillis" here: http://edge.org/responses/q2013 TL;DR version: "google uses advanced search techniques to cut through the bullshit and give you the right information depending on the search terms and current events, including past searches, clicks and other activities while using the site" Wow. I'm just shocked to my very core. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted February 19, 2013 GreyGhost said:I happened to have a calculator handy, which spat out 43.7990926916 as the result. Also can write the answer as 43.8. Not bad for wintertime driving and driving in a bad snowstorm. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted February 19, 2013 What is this thread about exactly? 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted February 19, 2013 The fuel efficiency of Hellbent's car in a snowstorm?Hellbent said:Also can write the answer as 43.8. That's the result I got using a slide rule, which also happened to be close at hand. Next stop - pencil and paper. 0 Share this post Link to post
Acid Posted February 19, 2013 Technician said:What is this thread about exactly? What is this thread not about? 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted February 19, 2013 Technician said:What is this thread about exactly? Alcohol, and perhaps other inebriating substances. 0 Share this post Link to post
Phml Posted February 19, 2013 Csonicgo said:TL;DR version: "google uses advanced search techniques to cut through the bullshit and give you the right information depending on the search terms and current events, including past searches, clicks and other activities while using the site" Wow. I'm just shocked to my very core. If you happen to share the moral ideals of your particular subculture and aren't interested in a different perspective, your statement is true. It's a pretty lousy attitude to have as an intelligent being, though. Ever seen a school advertise itself as lacking any oversea program and exposing students to a very limited curriculum? Knowledge doesn't come from sitting in increasingly small and isolated bubbles of people sharing opinions in everything, but from confrontation and being exposed to as many viewpoints as possible. We now live in a world where there's hardly any physical limitation to the spread of knowledge, and instead, not only people choose to limit their horizons, they stand up and applaud when a company with more power than any government essentially enforces such restrictions on all of their customers. There is no greater irony than seeing the Internet hivemind looking down at people living in authoritarian states. 0 Share this post Link to post