What’s “nannan i U.S. dollars”?
Oops July 29th, 2007 - By Haochi
I was double checking my answers for the math summer assignment last night and Google Suggest (Firefox) gave me a wrong (and totally nonsense) answer - “nannan i U.S. dollars” - for (5-pi)+(pi-5), while the result page returns the right answer: 0. (update: changed from 1, hehe)
Any idea what “nannan i U.S. dollars” might be?
UPDATE: It turns out that any expression with 0 as the answer will return “= nannan i U.S. dollars”. Thanks Ionut. :)
July 29th, 2007 at 1:48 am
nan means “not a number” I guess.
July 29th, 2007 at 3:35 am
>>while the result page returns the right answer: 1.
how come ur answer is 1?
July 29th, 2007 at 4:34 am
NaN NaN > Montecarlo is right
but I don’t know why
July 29th, 2007 at 10:36 am
@Justin
Whoops, I have no idea why I typed 1 lol. :P
@Montecarlo & Tom
Wow, never thought of that, but what’s with the U.S. dollars? Maybe they are trying the do a currency conversion?
July 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
It works for anything that involves pi and evaluates to 0: [pi-pi], [pi*0].
July 29th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
In fact, it works for any expression that should return 0: [1-1].
July 29th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I don’t know what it means either, but I do know that I just tried it. I accepted the suggestion of “= nannan i U.S. dollars”, hit enter… guess which paged showed up as the first hit for that phrase?
July 30th, 2007 at 12:12 am
I actually tried that like 5 mins ago, and hehe, the first and only (as of now). :)
September 29th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I tried it for 12 % 12, and got nannan i US dollars.