Google's a calculator now too

PhotonBoy

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Google\'s a calculator now too

http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator

"To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2). You can also experiment with other numbering systems, including hexadecimal and binary."

This is especially handy if you use Google's toolbar, since it's always visible in the browser. BTW I've had 295 popup ads blocked since I installed it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

logicnerd411

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Re: Google\'s a calculator now too

Wow, news travels fast around the Internet - I just learned about this yesterday... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thinking.gif

Dan
 

PhotonBoy

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Re: Google\'s a calculator now too

Fun with the Google calculator:

http://www.kottke.org/03/08/030814fun_with_the.html

"After verifying that 2+2=4 (contrary to popular belief), I tried to figure out the largest difference between the smallest and largest units of measurement on a given scale, finally ending up with ~3.08 x 10^26 angstroms in a parsec (26 orders of magnitude difference). If you delve into the world of obscure metric prefixes, you can get up to 64 orders of magnitude difference....there are ~3.08 x 10^64 yoctometers in a yottaparsec. If you want to get really ridiculous, you can find out how many yoctometers there are in one vigintillion parsecs (~3.08 x 10^103 if you're curious)."
 
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