About Nugacious

Nugacious compares physical quantities. Enter a quantity, and the closest match, five other randomly chosen close matches, and five completely random matches are returned. Want more random comparisons? Just reload the page or click the “Get more comparisons” button.

Name

Nugacious [noo-gey-sh*uh* s] is a synonym of trivial and refers to the insignificant nature of the quantity comparisons provided.

Data

Comparisons are made against a set of roughly 700,000 physical quantities extracted from DBpedia, an ontology created from Wikipedia infoboxes. Length, area, volume, time, speed, mass, temperature, power, voltage, frequency, density, and torque are covered to varying degrees.

Inspiration

Nugacious was inspired by the quantity comparisons that Wolfram Alpha sometimes includes. Disappointed by a lack of comparisons and their deterministic nature, I decided to provide a solution.

Built With

• bootstrap
• dbpedia
• django
• pint
• python
• web