how many scientific, engineering, political, economic calculations are being 10x'd because someone did simple, quick math in the Google bar?
it gets it right in the browser bar! but not the widget, where it discards the leading punctuation.
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
for real though, I think google should be responsible for some level of accuracy in their fact card widgets. like there's a lot of documented, bad cases of the dumb little fact cards misleading people and having real world consequences
it strips the leading . from ".5m" too, its something to do with string preprocessing to strip punctuation before it displays the fact card. I've sent feedback but for all I know that's a beg button