Thursday, January 17, 2008
Donald Knuth and the Google Calculator
¶ 7:08 AM 
Click on header to hear "Potrezebie" [sic] by Bob Brookmeyer from the album The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer (1954), reissued on compact disc in 1992.
The Google Calculator can now perform calculations using Donald Knuth's "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures" as seen in Mad 33 (1957). ( 1 potrzebie equals around 2.2633 mm – the thickness of Mad 26.) Just type "potrzebie," "1 potrzebie furshlugginer," "1 ngogn," "1 furshlugginer blintz" or other Mad and Knuth terms into Google to see the calculations. Doesn't work on Advanced Search though.
