Just found this out today: Get Google to convert long numbers to English text

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For example: Long number: 15978222550

 

To have Google give you that as a number you can read in English text search:

 

15978222550 =english

 

Result:

 

http://i.snag.gy/281NR.jpg

[Arthur]

Very useful. Thanks!

 

A couple of others that I don't think many people know about include using Google to convert to/from different timezones and as a stopwatch.

 

http://a.pomf.se/hffjwa.png

 

http://a.pomf.se/eoqsgp.png

[3s-gtech]

Nice, apart from Americanising it by stripping the 'and' from the 1x10^3 break. Still handy, so long as it doesn't affect our pronunciation!