Google Calculator Wrong!

20 April 2007

Either I’m missing something (quite possible), or Google’s calculator converts between joules and calories incorrectly. According to pretty much everyone else (e.g. here), a calorie is 4.184 kilojoules. According to Google’s calculator, it’s 0.004184 kilojoules.

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Debbie 26 April 2007
Heh, I noticed this about a year ago and tried emailing/sending a comment to Google about it, but obviously it went unnoticed. I’m glad it’s not just me who notices these things :)
Tony Meyer 1 May 2007
I was missing something :) I noticed kcal on a packet of food today, so I actually looked it up. Turns out there are “small” and “large” calories, and really what lay-people call calories are kilo-calories, so Google is really right. Seems to me they should have a “did you mean kilocalories?” addition to the searches, since this is the common use…
Savvy 20 September 2011
That’s very likely wrong. I was using it to check some homework, and it came up with this: diameter of the earth = 1 275 620 000 centimeters It’s wrong! They added an extra zero, I checked my calculations many times.
steve 4 April 2012
If you do sin(45) or cos(22) it gets them all wrong. It is rubbish.