Google Calculator Goodness
There was a forum discussion on Channel9 the other day about petrol (gas as the yanks call it) prices outside the US.
I had no idea what the current price in US$ per gallon over there was, nor did I have any idea how to convert our price (AU$ per litre) to theirs. So I jump onto Google, and after some stuffing around, worked this out:
1.38 aud per litre in usd per gallon
How awesome is that? It's doing currency conversion and measurement conversion (slick, easy-to-use metric to clunky, archaic US) in one query. Unbelievable.
And yes, Google Calculator still knows that e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0!
Comments
# JohnP
13/09/2005 11:19 PM
Heh. That's pretty good.
Right after hurrican Katrina, I paid $3.29 for gas. (Ok, I have a Dodge Grand Caravan and filled up 15 of the 20 gallon tank.)
Anyway, it's been going down nicely (!!) since then and is currently around $2.89 or lower in places.
$4.05 a gallon? To some in a political party I'm not affiliated with, that would constitute an immediate impeachment of the president.
Current president of course.
# mabster
13/09/2005 11:24 PM
Wow - that's under an Aussie dollar per litre. Half your luck, John.
I can't really complain, though - my company pays for my car and its petrol.
The most interesting thing about the comparison, in my opinion, is that AU$1.38/L comes out to be AU$5.22/gallon (as opposed to US$4.05). Since a job that pays AU$50K here would more than likely pay US$50K over there, I think it's more logical to not do the currency conversion at all and just say that we're paying the equivalent of your $5.22 per gallon.
I hear tell that in the UK it works out to something like US$6.00/gallon!