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Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by tehmaco » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

teh_klev wrote: post #46

avinassh wrote: post #19

Search in Google following for Batman: 2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9 link…

Now I challenge you to drop in the Eye of Sauron :)

Wolfram Alpha didn't recognise "Eye of Sauron":

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+Sauro...

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by acadien » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:28 PM UTC

BMarkmann wrote: post #56

avinassh wrote: post #19

Search in Google following for Batman: 2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9 link…

Wolfram Alpha does a pretty amazing job of taking an existing graphic and turning back into a graph-able equation... eg: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+batman http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+bart+s...

I feel like these are special cased, searching for: graph looks like with any random object turns up junk.

Edit: then again it does work with Obama but not with Richard Nixon.

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by acoravos » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #19

Search in Google following for Batman: 2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9 link…

Hahaha, this made. my. day.

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by garethadams » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

acadien wrote: post #62

BMarkmann wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wolfram Alpha does a pretty amazing job of taking an existing graphic and turning back into a graph-able equation... eg: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+batman http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+bart+s...

I feel like these are special cased, searching for: graph looks like with any random object turns up junk. Edit: then again it does work with Obama but not with Richard Nixon.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=popular+curves

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by sk2code » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

martokus wrote: post #36

This was posted here around Valentines day last year https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x...

Only works in Chrome.

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by hypertexthero » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:55 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #21

While this is nice, I don't like the idea of one company being the one-stop-shop for all of our knowledge.

While I share your sentiment, I just finished Randall Stross's Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know, which I found outside Strand Books in NYC.

One of the things I learned from the book, published in 2008, is that Google is a company with a [long view][1], which is a very good thing. We need more companies with long-term views to better our chances of survival as a species.

From the [Longnow Foundation's about page][2], parentheses mine:

> The term (Longnow) was coined by one of our founding board members, Brian Eno. Upon moving to New York City, Brian found that "here" and "now" meant "this room" and "this five minutes" as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our foundation as we try to stretch out what people consider as now.

[1]: https://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-lett... "See the 'LONG TERM FOCUS' section. They've done a good job up to now, and hope they continue."

[2]: http://longnow.org/about/

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by Bouncingsoul1 » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:56 PM UTC

sk2code wrote: post #65

martokus wrote: post #36

This was posted here around Valentines day last year https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x...

Only works in Chrome.

Works perfectly in Firefox 36.0.1 on Ubuntu

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by franole » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

lindbergh wrote: post #60

chrisBob wrote: post #4

Google has done math in the search for a while. It is also my go to place for unit conversions.

Speaking of which, miles per hour get converted in m/s, which is not very useful

They are both base units of the SI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by hackmiester » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

sk2code wrote: post #65

martokus wrote: post #36

This was posted here around Valentines day last year https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x...

Only works in Chrome.

Works here.

user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0

Re: x*sin(y)

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

sk2code wrote: post #65

martokus wrote: post #36

This was posted here around Valentines day last year https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x...

Only works in Chrome.

WFM in Firefox 37.0.1 on Arch Linux.