Google is also a calculator

kev1n3

Not sure if this has been mentioned before so thought i'd post here.

Type in your mathematical equation into Google, and hit return for the answer.

Cool ehh? :j

marksward

another one is link:[the url]
e.g. link:moneysavingexpert.com

This shows what sites have a link to that site, its a sneaky way of finding similar sites

Ebany

Google also does conversions quickly and easily, just type in what you want, and it gives you the answer

eg typing in '4lb in g' comes up with 4 pound = 1 814.36948 grams

It seems to have managed to recognise every type of unit I have put in, even stone which I wasnt sure what it would make of, though it took a bit of fiddling to get a format it understood if mixing units ('3stone 10lb in kg' finally worked, apparently its 23.5868032 kilograms)

-TangleFoot-

You can do many other things with Google too!

Avoriaz

Can it make a nice cup of tea?

skiddy2k

Avoriaz wrote:

Can it make a nice cup of tea?

only cofee at the moment, tea's still in development!

CrabPaste

http://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/options/

You can also create and save (online or offline) Word documents, as well as its equivalent formats, and also PDF files.

I believe you need a gmail account to use the features, but it's a fair price......free!

superscaper

Ebany wrote:

Google also does conversions quickly and easily, just type in what you want, and it gives you the answer

eg typing in '4lb in g' comes up with 4 pound = 1 814.36948 grams

It seems to have managed to recognise every type of unit I have put in, even stone which I wasnt sure what it would make of, though it took a bit of fiddling to get a format it understood if mixing units ('3stone 10lb in kg' finally worked, apparently its 23.5868032 kilograms)

Doesn't seem to recognise proper binary units (eg MiB, KiB) and it incorrectly gave 1 Megabyte equal to 1024 Kilobytes, when it should be 1000 Kilobytes.

coral

1MB does equal 1024kb?!

superscaper

coral wrote:

1MB does equal 1024kb?!

A lot of people seem to think so. The SI prefix mega means 1 million no matter what the context (all hard drive manufacturers now use it in it's proper sense), if you want to mean 1,048,576 (ie a binary prefix) then use mebi. Hence 1 MiB equals 1024 KiB. But 1 MB equals 1000 KB.

cookie_monster_8

coral wrote:

1MB does equal 1024kb?!

no its all do do with binary and then computer storage.

Technically one mibibyte (MiB) is 1024 kibibytes (KiB)
one megabyte (Mb) is 1000 kilobytes (kb)

but due to everything commonly being known as a kilobyte or megabyte things get confusing

for a quick reference....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mibibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte

shoul dexplain a little more indepth