Google adds 34-button calculator to search results

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Google adds 34-button calculator to search results

Google has beefed up its built-in calculator function, adding an interface with 34 buttons. When a user types a sum such as "2 + 2" or "4 x 5," they are now confronted by the visual interface shown above ? previously, Google would simply spit out the answer as text. The calculator includes functions for processing sines, cosines, and tangents as well as dedicated buttons for Pi and Euler's number.

According to an official Google Twitter account, the company began rolling out the latest stage, 3.9, of its Panda algorithm update last night, but it is not clear whether the addition of the calculator is connected. The calculator is one of a number of features implemented in recent months which seem designed to shift Google's role away from that of a simple search engine and towards a new position as a general tool for answers.

Source: The Verge

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[TechAddict]

ohh...you are right. like it!

[HoochieMamma]

niiiiice

[margrave]

Now if it only did the graphs too.... lol

[thealexweb]

Now if it only did the graphs too.... lol

It does, type in the equation of any graph.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It does, type in the equation of any graph.

Yep:

[Praetor]

humm..can't see the calculator but can see the graph tool in google.com.

[+John. Subscriber¹]

nice! Good improvement.

[Haggis Veteran]

yep graphs work fine

example

cos(12x)

[threetonesun]

2*sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9
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Cool, though. I use google for math... maybe too often.

[nyolc8]

humm..can't see the calculator but can see the graph tool in google.com.

Same here.

[devHead]

2*sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9
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Cool, though. I use google for math... maybe too often.

Too slick!

[Praetor]

2*sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9
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Cool, though. I use google for math... maybe too often.

lol the batman equation...

[Buttus]

LOL saw the 'google is down' thread' and went to check it out and found the calculator, then saw this thread!

cool idea

[drazgoosh]

Same here.

Just copy and paste the thing into search box. press enter.

[Growled Member]

That's just too cool. :)

[dotslash]

does 3d too:

sin 2x + cos y
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