Google, also an impressive calculator, apparently

Daniel - Jan 01, 2008 - Humour Tech

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:

Google equation

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:

Google Searchbar Equation

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.

Richard

The best one is still "answer to life, the universe and everything"

Gordon

42?

Anonymous

Its worth noting that the trig functions are calculated in radians and not degrees

Dan

Holy carp. It's speedy too. <3 Google.

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