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

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by gus_massa » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:23 AM UTC

ibejoeb wrote: post #4

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

It works in Chrome, but it doesn't work in IE8. (I didn't try with other browsers.)

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:24 AM UTC

tjoff wrote: post #7

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.

You can set axis ranges, which address some of the zoom issues. I've found this to be a bit tricky / iffy at best, particularly when using financial datasets.

Agreed regards zoom and such.

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by wx77 » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:25 AM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #16

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…

I believe you are remembering wrong:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611656

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607532

Not to say it is uncommon to call Stephen Wolfram egotistic, I swear there was a thread about Wolfram remembering Turing and people counting how many times Wolfram mentioned himself but it may have been killed as I can't find it.

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by J3L2404 » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:25 AM UTC

You can also draw multiple functions by separating with a comma.

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/12/showing-some-love-t...

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by kylek » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:25 AM UTC

But can it graph the Batman equation?!

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by yanw » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:41 AM UTC

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

First iteration.

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:42 AM UTC

kylek wrote: post #25

But can it graph the Batman equation?!

The Batman Curve is not the solutions of a single equation.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by Avshalom » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:54 AM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #27

kylek wrote: post #25

But can it graph the Batman equation?!

The Batman Curve is not the solutions of a single equation. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html

While I have no desire to do it, It could be transformed into polar coordinates and then combined into a single Fourier series to piece it together.

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by zecho » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:54 AM UTC

ibejoeb wrote: post #4

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

Took a moment for it to pop up for me with Firefox.

Re: Google can be used as a graphic calculator

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Post by test2754 » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:59 AM UTC

ibejoeb wrote: post #4

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

Doesn't work in Opera 11.52 and Internet Explorer 6.0.