Google thinks the sun is 15.81 light years from earth
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Just tried it again, now it both starts and ends with A. 50% improvement ain't bad.
1e6 AU = 15.81 light years.
Somebody did not pick up the 'e6' part...
https://www.calculateme.com/astronomy/astronomical-units/to-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars#Main_t...
Edit: Actually, it gets the same answer on the right side with JS enabled; didn't notice that earlier. So just the instant answer is missing in the JS-disabled case.
Also, here's a screenshot for posterity (with JS enabled): https://i.imgur.com/8kyI523.png
Gliese 412 is a pair of stars that share a common proper motion through space and are thought to form a binary star system. The pair have an angular separation of 31.4″ at a position angle of 126.1°.[12] They are located 15.8 light years distant from the Sun in the constellation Ursa Major. Both components are relatively dim red dwarf stars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenlandkreis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland
No summer ever.
Clouds always.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_brightest_stars#/Main_ta...
Despite what the press teams of large companies will tell you, our ability to model language is still in its early infancy.
I recently searched "80's rom-coms" and an instant answer came up on top. It was a list of 90's rom-coms. Similar, yes -- but not at all what I typed, and completely useless to me.
Don’t even get me started with github. Half of humanity’s code seems to be in some bucket that doesn’t understand punctuation when you search
A quick Google search on my phone for "average number of words spoken per day" gives similar results right now. Although the text starts with an ambitious sounding phrase "previous research" it ends in present tense and has 7000 in bold for men and 20,000 in bold for women.
AU is an average distance from Earth to the Sun. Since Earth's orbit is elliptical, it will be closer than 1AU at certain times of year, and further than 1AU at other times in the year.
”Originally conceived as the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion”
https://www.britannica.com/science/astronomical-unit:
”a unit of length effectively equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun”
I wondered whether the two are equal. A bit to my surprise, they are (http://www.farmingdale.edu/faculty/sheldon-gordon/RecentArti...)
(If we take into account that earth moves faster near its perihelion, I think that will break down)
And, nitpick, nowadays, the AU apparently is exactly 149,597,870,700 meters.
[distance earth to sun in km] gives 149.6 trillion km, which is 15.81 light years.
For example "distance to mars" says 54.6 million km, which is the theoretical minimum. "distance to venus" says 261 million km which is maximum. I believe it was Jupiter that previously gave an average distance but now I'm seeing minimum.
If I'm doing this correctly I think the max distance between two points would come out to max_x max_y ||x - y|| whereas the max distance to the orbit would come out to max_x min_y ||x - y||.
The closest is the 2:3 ratio of Pluto:Neptune. (It counts if you consider Pluto a planet. ;)
Otherwise, there's a nice table showing "near-integer-ratio relationships between the orbital frequencies". If I understand it correctly, each of the bigger-than-a-dwarf-planet planets will be at their furthest possible distances from each other in timescales no longer than about 50,000 years.
How do we debug them and how do we know there is an error to correct in the first place?
They give every coworker I've ever had a run for their money on catching my fuckups.
wait. when people die for no reason whatsoever, that counts, right?