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You were 1.00000013658932th?
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@malfist sorry but you and Google obviously miss the physics part: everybody knows butter does melt at Mach 2,well before c speed.
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Could this be considered the marginal constant?
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It didn't realize you wrote and wanted millibits?
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That was their original name - "butterfly" was a corruption of it.
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So, if "stick of butter half cup" assumes a multiplication problem, how come "stick of butter speed of light" suggests "Speed Stick deodorant"?
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TRWTF is measuring butter by volume instead of mass.
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Okay, we've all had our little fun about Google's butter-friendly calculator.
Was it here or somewhere else that someone asked Wolfram|Alpha's interface for the number of calories involved if the observable universe were made entirely of bacon? While I can't find the reference just now, they were able to get it to produce a figure for that but not when they used ham instead of bacon.
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http://xkcd.com/687/
Abusing dimensional analysis for fun and buttery goodness
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one US stick of butter * 0 = 0 m3 one metric stick of butter * 0 = No answer Even google hates metric.
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"anything_in_here" isn't fine; that will make it well-formed XML, but only readonly="readonly" is valid XHTML.
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Yeah. I also tried to ask it how much is one metric foot, one metric pound or one metric gallon, but got no answer.
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Want to know how long it would take to download a 100 MB file over a 56k line? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=100+mb+over+56k
Apparently it'll take a bit less than 2 and a half square-kilogram-meters per hypercubic-seconds-degrees-kelvin. Thanks, Google, I never would've guessed!
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=100+MB+over+56kbps
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Distance divided by speed-of-light = seconds.
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I can't believe Google doesn't convert Hubble-barns to metric though...
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readonly="what no of course not why would you even think that"
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Well metric sticks of butter tends to be defined by weight, usually 500 g or 250 g.
On some American or British products the the packs are 125 g, which I assume is chosen because its a round number fairly close to a quarter of a pound (113.398093 g)
Why is butter sold by volume in the US; the volume depends a lot on wether it's liquid or solid state doesn't it?
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Funniest thing I've seen all day, and I've been refereeing a chimp's tea-party competition all morning.
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Usually you can omit the trash words from a Google search but in this case you can't. If you actually ask the question correctly you get the right answer:
sticks of butter in a half cup
returns
1 half US cup = 1 US stick of butter
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If you are writing that much html by hand, you are so incompetent that the next person to clean up after you (assuming you have done anything that is worth cleaning up) will not even look at it because he will be re-writing everything from scratch. Seriously, do you realize what you are doing?
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avogadro's number * the answer to life, the universe and everything beer barrels per femtosecond per yottabyte in sticks of butter per year per bit
Ah, units are fun.
I want to mess with Google Calculator and Wolfram|Alpha instead of doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
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Finally!!! A bit of honesty in an installer window.
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That's to remove any illusion that
<input type="text" readonly="NO">works. If you type the above you will find that "NO" actually means "YES", very much.
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So? Doesn't it always?
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Shouldn't that be "Butter Metrology"?
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mhh / the web is full of that kind of crap.
checked='checked' border-collapse:collapse; visibility:visible;
etc.
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two girls, one stick ?
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Umm ... what? How did you get from "I sometimes write a readonly attribute" to "I'm writing too much HTML by hand"?
Oh well, from the fact that you used the word "worth", you're obviously a serial killer, so there's no point discussing this further.
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That's how often I #2
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I've been looking for the memory card donation station! Thanks!!!
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one stick of butter times the answer to life, the universe and everything per second
(1 US stick of butter * The answer to life the universe and everything) per second = 0.00496835297 m3 / s
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Just FYI, we fixed this query in Google calculator so it returns the expected result.
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