Google can be used as a graphic calculator

Post by shubsengupta » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 4:10 AM UTC

biot wrote: post #46

I've just proven mathematically that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists: https://www.google.com/search?q=cos(x)-tan(sec(x%5E2) )

Post by wx77 » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 4:22 AM UTC

gbak wrote: post #49

wx77 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The discussion you are looking for is this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080470 (Wolfram on Steve Jobs)

Post by sneak » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 6:06 AM UTC

kevinalexbrown wrote: post #55

adabsurdo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Adding positive comments doesn't usually add as much information. The story itself was a positive comment. Critical discussion is best done not by saying "hey, cool story" - that's what upvoting is for. There are some cases where a non-negative comment is great, like pointing other readers to an interesting piece of related information, but if all it does is confirm what the original submission said, it's less inform…

Post by woodson » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 7:07 AM UTC

megablast wrote: post #57

herdrick wrote: post #33

Anyone know how to denote 'log base 2'? This: "log (x)" assumes base 10.

ln? Isn't log base 2 the natural log? Yup, that works.

Post by vilqqu » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 8:05 AM UTC