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Feedback: Weight in dollars squared

5 June 2013

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Weight in dollars squared

PROGRAMMERS at a Famous Web Search Engine are forever trying to find new ways to be helpful – and to keep us coming back. Clive Jones was recently looking up exchange rates between the British pound and the US dollar. He discovered that if you put a figure and a currency in the search box, the search engine makes “a decent stab at providing an instant conversion without the need to select a website and search around”.

Later, he…

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