Google can be used as a graphic calculator

rcfox wrote: post #3

WolframAlpha has slightly more sophisticated graphing calculator functionality: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sin%28x%29%2B1%2F2+sin%...

I really like that you can view different ranges without modifying the original query in the Google version.

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Post by tjoff » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 11:46 PM UTC

rcfox wrote: post #3

WolframAlpha has slightly more sophisticated graphing calculator functionality: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sin%28x%29%2B1%2F2+sin%...

I haven't used WolframAlpha that much for graphs but I've often been bothered by the lack of zoom, scale and pan which google seems to have solved quite nicely.

Hopefully WA will do something similar in the near future.

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Post by mirkules » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 11:49 PM UTC

ibejoeb wrote: post #4

I expected to see a graph, but I'm just getting search results. How did you access it?

Do you have Javascript turned off, in particular, google.com? Disallowing google.com only gives me search results. (gstatic.com is irrelevant, I think)

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Post by marcamillion » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 11:56 PM UTC

Even better is that it's not using Flash. JS and Canvas it seems.

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Post by suyash » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 11:57 PM UTC

nice! wish I knew that in college!