Can you guess what the above Google search returns? |
lol..
didnt think it would give me that result.. :)
nice find :) |
Didn't expect that...
Check out "adasd", and the AdWords... :D |
Haochi, it even gets better.. the sponsored adword is by google!!
http://slash.pd.googlepages.com/asad.png |
nice find
look what it does in French :
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=dollar
(I know various bugs like that) |
what about this one Tom?
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=euro&btnG=Rechercher&meta=
1 euro=1,2799 dollars?
the 2799=cents?
like here:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-10,GGGL:en&q=euro
if so, they should change it to a dot (1.2799 dollars) |
In European countries (but not the UK) the decimal point is a comma (,). So for instance 3/2 is written 1,5.
And for say 1 million, they write 1.000.000.
In the UK because of our proximity to Europe we are now instructed in schools not to use commas in large numbers due to the confusion it could cause. So we leave a gap instead. So 1 million is written 1 000 000.
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Sam is a good teacher :-P All right
Some others :
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=1500+dollars+par+jour&btnG=Rechercher&meta=
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=4400+par+dollars&btnG=Rechercher&meta=
It seems to work also in english :
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-10%2CGGGL%3Afr&q=1100+euros+%2Fmonth&btnG=Search
it's a really really useful conversion... |
Oh, just a note : in France we write "1 000 000" instead of "1 million" too ;-) |
<< In the UK because of our proximity to Europe we are now instructed in schools not to use commas in large numbers due to the confusion it could cause. So we leave a gap instead. So 1 million is written 1 000 000. >>
They didn't teach that back when I were a lad. Maybe they should teach those French kids to use decimal points instead of commas... ;-)
However, I always used to get told off for writing my decimal points on the baseline rather than in the middle of the line (i.e. 3.14159265 vs. 3ยท14159265). Apparently I was copying my calculator and that was wrong! |
Tony, my grandfather had a typewriter with a separate "decimal point" key that put the dot properly in the middle of the line.
But with calculators and computers I think that usage has almost completely died out. |
<< it's a really really useful conversion... >>
i agree :) |
Tony: Yeah I am not sure quite how widespread that teaching is. I only just left school, and it was mentioned to me. But you can see that there is the possibility for confusion with us using the comma all over the place. |
And that's how I learned to write an upper-case "X" in elementary school (the right character):
http://www.diaware.de/bilder/schrift/_x.gif
And of course, we use "1,5" meaning one – point – five :) |
