A Fun Google Contest!

[Irina Shamaeva]

The winner is the person who submits the max number of (distinctly different) expressions, not containing any digits, which Google will calculate into a number if you add 1. Examples:

• three+1
• miles in kilometer+1

 

Deadline: EOB Pacific time on Wed Nov 2nd, 2011.

Prize: attend the upcoming Google Webinar on Nov 3rd, get materials for another webinar, or a credit toward a future one.

Please post your suggestions as comments here; more than one comment by the same person are fine - we'll add everything up.

[Kameron Swinton]

Great idea Irina! Here's a few ideas to get this party started ->

 

(speed of sound)/(speed of sound)+1

(speed of light)/speed of light)+1

(speed of light)/(speed of sound)+1

pi+1

Pi squared+1

square root of pi+1

sin pi+1

(miles per (half marathon))+1

(miles per marathon)+1

inches to cm+1

square root of (inch to cm)+1

inches to mm+1

((inch to mm) squared) + 1

square root of (inch to mm)+1

inches to ft+1

inches to meter+1

liters to gallon+1

(pound to kilogram)+1

bakers dozen+1

square root(bakers dozen)+1

 

-kameron

[Irina Shamaeva]

I'm impressed!

Kameron Swinton said:

Great idea Irina! Here's a few ideas to get this party started ->

 

(speed of sound)/(speed of sound)+1

(speed of light)/speed of light)+1

(speed of light)/(speed of sound)+1

pi+1

Pi squared+1

square root of pi+1

sin pi+1

(miles per (half marathon))+1

(miles per marathon)+1

inches to cm+1

square root of (inch to cm)+1

inches to mm+1

((inch to mm) squared) + 1

square root of (inch to mm)+1

inches to ft+1

inches to meter+1

liters to gallon+1

(pound to kilogram)+1

bakers dozen+1

square root(bakers dozen)+1

 

-kameron

[Dave Galley]

Not really "in it to win it" - this is a well documented feature, and much like "how many english words can you produce using the following set of letters" type challenges, is pretty easily scripted.

Some other fun ones, though:

e^pi+1
pi
avagrado's number+1
i squared+1
ln twenty-seven+1
mass of jupiter divided by mass of earth+1
sine of thirty-seven+1
arctangent of thiry-seven+1
hyperbolic sine of eighty+1
eighteenth root of one hundred and eighty-one+1
sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six modulo sixteen+1
great gross choose baker's dozen+1
usd to gbp+1
one hundred thousand times (((one plus (thirty-five divided by one thousand))^thirty)+1

[Dena Bailey]

three squared + 1

square root of nine + 1

pi + 1

(radius of earth)/(radius of earth) + 1

Sin three + 1

Cos three + 1

Tan three + 1

Arctan three +1

Pi radians + 1

Pi degrees + 1

 

-Dena

[Chris Cruz]

radius of earth/((the golden ratio*pi)+1)

phi/pi+1
phi+1
pound/stone+1
(liter to US fluid ounce) +1
pi+1
(mph/knot) +1
(km/cm) +1
(yard/furlong) +1
yen to usd+1
((pound to usd)/phi)+1
(gbp to rub)/pi)+1
angstrom/micron+1
(light year/parasec)+1
(league to mile)+1
cos(the golden ratio)+1
(fathom/ft)+1
(yen/euro)(phi/pi)+1
(micrometer/picometer)/(the golden ratio)+1
squre root(usd to pound)+1

[Irina Shamaeva]

Great answers so far!

(gbp to rub)/pi) counts for creativity :)

Please, no digits in your expressions.

By the way Google ignores parenthesis within parenthesis (try it). 

 

[Dave Galley]

I think I fixed my digits/numerals.

I believe you are incorrect about nested parentheticals in the specific instance of the calculator. For instance, try my 100K over 30 years continuous interest expression w/o the nested parens and see the difference.

[Kameron Swinton]

Google changed many of my examples around to include nested parantheses, however, it had no impact on the outcome of the equation.

 

Btw - I agree with your earlier comment about many of the numerical functions of Google being well documented. What doesn't seem to be well documented is the numerical equavalents that Google knows, for instance a bakers dozen or a marathon, etc.

 

Math with roman numerals is always fun - IV*X+I

 

-kameron

Dave Galley said:

I think I fixed my digits/numerals.

I believe you are incorrect about nested parentheticals in the specific instance of the calculator. For instance, try my 100K over 30 years continuous interest expression w/o the nested parens and see the difference.

[Dave Galley]

Kameron,

Sometimes order of operations is quite clear/implied. Sometimes it is not. When it is not, you will see different outcomes (for example - try my continuous interest expression - then try w/o parens - you will see a very noticeable difference in outcomes).

-Dave

Kameron Swinton said:

Google changed many of my examples around to include nested parantheses, however, it had no impact on the outcome.

 

-kameron

Dave Galley said:

I think I fixed my digits/numerals.

I believe you are incorrect about nested parentheticals in the specific instance of the calculator. For instance, try my 100K over 30 years continuous interest expression w/o the nested parens and see the difference.

[Irina Shamaeva]

Actually, you guys might be right that nested parenthesis do matter when the expression is handed off to the calculator. I don't think they are taken into account in search.

[Kameron Swinton]

It doesn't seem to be very consistent in search as typically the answer is no, but I've seen examples in the past where it has worked. Anyone figured out a way (w/o using #'s or dividing by itself) to +1 to a temp, K, C, etc?

 

-kameron

Irina Shamaeva said:

Actually, you guys might be right that nested parenthesis do matter when the expression is handed off to the calculator. I don't think they are taken into account in search.

[Dave Galley]

Irina,

Agreed - in search, the nested parens, they do nothing! But the calculator plays nice with them.

Would love to have nested parentheticals for web / db search. Even with third party resume databases that support fairly complex searches, nested conditionals are very rarely supported, to my dismay).

-Dave

Irina Shamaeva said:

Actually, you guys might be right that nested parenthesis do matter when the expression is handed off to the calculator. I don't think they are taken into account in search.