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By Daniel in Code, Computing, Shorts, Tech ⋅ January 1, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Google has surprised me again. I've always known you can search for 'Speed of Light' and before the results google will give you the answer. But it turns out you can enter pretty much any equation and be given the result straight off:

It gets better: if you use Firefox 2 or have the Google toolbar, it's likely that the version of the google search bar you have will give you a set of suggested results when you begin typing. Try typing in an equation, and it spits out the result:

They've even written in conversions. Try the following:

• Speed of sound in au per millenium
• Speed of light in zeptometres per nanosecond
• Miles in megametres
• Stones in petagrams

I love Google. I have a Physics exam in two weeks time, oh how I wish my calculator could automate things like this.

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