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		yourad_io on Aug 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dorking: the use of search engines to find very sp... Fun fact: googling for -273.15 without double quotes produces no results. You need to quote negative arithmetic values when searching, even if there are no other query parameters. It made me wonder if I was misremembering absolute zero.

yjftsjthsd-h on Aug 10, 2020 [–]

Oh, probably because it interprets it as a logical negation; not "negative X", but "remove X from results".

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