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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Google: The Google calculator

Google is more than a search engine. Isn't it?

The Google calculator is included in Google.com’s normal web search. So instead of entering words you want to find in web pages, you can simply enter math queries like the following:
10+7*3–12
The Google result will then display the solution:
10 + (7 * 3) - 12 = 19.
That’s already a little more fun than using a normal calculator (and incredibly helpful too, at times), but there’s much more to it. Let’s start with an Easter Egg – a hidden function within a program that makes it do something unexpected and interesting – and enter the following:
answer to life, the universe and everything
Entering this will result in the Google calculator showing you the answer “42”.
(If you wish to dig into why google answered so, google for this!!!)

But the fun doesn’t end there. Here are just some more examples of what’s possible, and often these different queries can be combined to larger formulas:
seconds in a year (1 year = 31 556 926 seconds)
furlongs per fortnight (1 furlongs per fortnight = 0.000166309524 m / s)
speed of light in knots (the speed of light = 582 749 918 knots)

3 comments:

Bharat said...

Its a good one........
But how google calculate it?Can u tell me plz......

Unknown said...

Google claculator is very useful to understand the google way of funtioning the syntax,expression,operater & more. And i wud request u to put more example of google calulator in this blog .That might help many to help google calcualtor function.This blog is very nice ..

Anonymous said...

google calculator is not the only way to find google's way of functioning. There are many other simple search techniques too!

And, when google is there, do one need me to post here to work with google calc?
just google for !