Hi all,
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As many of you are fully aware, a number of advanced HP calcs do have some kind of unit conversion feature built-in or it might be available in a plug-in ROM or other media.
You may also be aware that Google has a built-in "calculator" which, among many interesting and advanced things, manages to do unit conversions as well. For instance, if you enter this "search" in Google:
convert 1 byte to bits
as soon as you press [Enter], it will promptly display:
1 byte = 8 bits
which is perfectly correct. Now, focusing in conversion from higher-order units of RAM (say bytes, etc) to bits, there are some really weird conversions that Google manages to correctly perform, despite the strange quantities being specified.
For instance, this works !:
convert 999.9999999 billion trillion googol googol exabytes to bits [Enter]
999.9999999 billion trillion googol googol exabytes = 9.22337204 × 10^242 bits
I wonder if some HP model or available software can do this particular conversion, more or less as written ? Obviously it is not that difficult to write some program which would do it, the question is if it can be done right out-of-the-box or using already existing software.Best regards from V.