Post #2330256
2026-05-08 16:28 UTC
Replies (12)
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@simontatham@hachyderm.io 2026-05-08 16:39
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz reminds me of a friend who once asked Wolfram Alpha for a graph of "tan tan x", and got a graph of tan x, drawn in a light brown colour. I think they fixed it, though. (Disappointingly.)
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@Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-08 16:49
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz ahah just randomly putting a Boltzmann constant just because
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@capnthommo@c.im 2026-05-13 12:54
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz and there was me thinking the answer would be £200.00 Just shows what I know, ay?
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@yadt@tech.lgbt 2026-05-13 13:04
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz I guess the U.S. Dollar is the SI base currency?
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@Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz 2026-05-13 15:26
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz Haha the k
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@Rib@fedi.rib.gay 2026-05-13 15:53
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz went to check myself and clicked the "Disclaimer" link out of curiosity and got an error 404. Great job Google!
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@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden 2026-06-06 20:10
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz Huh, usually I can't reproduce these finds but now I get this as well. Interestingly enough, I get the same formula but a different initial constant, 3.6-something. And it is consistent between refreshes and new tabs and even different browsers, i.e. I get that same number. Weird.
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-06-06 20:42
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz in a weird way it makes sense because "k" is the Boltzmann constant, you're in a way asking for 20% of 1*Boltzmann Constant .. though with a pound sign you'd think it'd understand it's about 1000 currency and not kinetic energy
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@napili@hachyderm.io 2026-06-06 23:20
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz omg that still works!
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@ar@is-a.cat 2026-06-07 10:23
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz works with other currencies as well
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@kitten@social.elizabeth.cat 2026-06-07 10:33
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz beyond the whole constant interpretation, I'm amazed at how at some point it decided to convert the pounds to USD
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@ArthurClemens@todon.nl 2026-06-07 16:00
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz @tess@mastodon.social It connects to the concept of currency, then conflates it with the popular explanation that the Boltzmann constant “lets us convert the ‘currency’ of the total energy of a system”. LLM doing LLM.