Google can be used as a graphic calculator • Hacker News Board

Offtopic observation: when Wolframalpha first appeared everyone on sites like Reddit and HN were falling over eachother to explain, in detail, what kind of an arrogant d*ck & loser Stephen Wolfram really is. Ignoring the Wolframalpha product features and going directly for the person behind it and his book and so on. Now seems like everyone loves his product and, subsequently, never mentions the guy behind it anymore. Anyone else noticed that?

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by nkoren » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:09 AM UTC

adabsurdo wrote: post #12

jxcole wrote: post #5

Sadly, google's cannot be used to calculate 3D plots, though wolfram's can: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5E2%2By%5E2

you know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment has found something negative to nitpick out of a cool story.

You know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment is a link to a bunch of stuff about paraboloids.

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Post by marcuswestin » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:09 AM UTC

marcamillion wrote: post #9

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

svg

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by dtwwtd » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:13 AM UTC

ibejoeb wrote: post #4

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

I saw a graph for the link on this post but tried a number of other functions and did not see graphs.

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:15 AM UTC

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