Friday, January 05, 2007

not really math, but ..

i just learned that the firefox google search bar can be used as a calculator, and can also compute currency exchanges.

i'm serious. i've just entered in log(13), which gave a correct answer, but the USD conversion for 35 euro was about 50 cents off.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This has nothing to do with firefox, it's just a google feature. Can be used to prove to students that some math constant (like Euler's constant) is important: "even google knows it!"

janus said...

google knows Euler's constant?

nice!

(on a side note, i find it sociologically interesting that 'microsoft is evil' and 'google is good.')