Google calculator in Russian

18.7.07
Anna Katanova, engineer (Moscow)

In Russian literature, precise dimensions are not often met, but, for example, the description of the Humpbacked Horse:

"Yes, skate toy
Only three inches tall,
On the back with two humps
Yes, with speckled ears. "

That being awkward is understandable right away, but if you wanted to imagine more precisely what the proportions of this skate were, then 10-15 years ago you most likely would have got into a paper dictionary (Great Soviet Encyclopedic, for example), and now - into a search engine and If you're lucky, you can get the answer you need right away: three heads and arshin . Google calculator spoke in Russian.

Now you can find out how many hours in a sidereal bottom that hoogshead is a large measure of volume, and our half-liter is more than an American pint, but less than an English pint. You can easily (without independent calculations and consultations with reference books) translate the pre-revolutionary wheat yield of 175 pounds from tithing to centners per hectare into modern units or find out the area of ​​Red square in acres.
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Of course, the calculator can add, subtract, divide, multiply, raise to a power, calculate the values ​​of most other elementary mathematical functions (see instructions). Sometimes you need to translate 20 C to F or 3'4 "in meters. I wonder how much will be 13 liters per 100 kilometers in miles per gallon?

You can use the calculator to write 23487607 in words or ask him to calculate 5 percent of 300. If the calculator cannot offer anything meaningful, you will simply receive search results.

by Official Google blog - Russia