Once upon a time I wrote an IRC chat bot for my friends and I that could do calculations and convert units (metric -> imperial) with a command.

My friends were impressed that I included units like furloughs, leagues and bushels.

My chatbot was just googling their request and returning the result (which, handily, was done by the google engine itself and was very easy to extract with Beautiful Soup in python). This was 15+ years ago.

This doesn't really have anything to do with your reply, just a fun memory I guess