where?
I don't get it either. Maybe only US IPs?
It's working for me from the UK. I can't imagine why Google would want to geolocate this. Perhaps they've only partially rolled it out to some of their datacenters?
Google search's new basic calculator
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Re: Google search's new basic calculator
#12Interesting how Microsoft and Google have different ideas of how percentage key (%) should work. Relevant post by Raymond Chen: “How does the [Windows] calculator percent key work?” http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/70474... Implementing % button, Google chose an approach which is more mathematically sensible but arguably less obvious to users. For Google, 10% just an alias for 0.1. This means th…
I just tested it and the percent key in the Google calculator doesn't work like the one described in the linked article. It really just divides by 100.
3 + 5% = 3 + 0.05 = 3.05
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#13What a complete load of shit. You have to actually click the numbers, you can't use your computer's keyboard. Google, I am disappoint.
Don’t forget that the preferred method to do calculations with google is to put them into the search box.
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#14Link that works for people with non-English Google:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calculator
(The link is setting the language to English for just that search.)
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#15What a complete load of shit. You have to actually click the numbers, you can't use your computer's keyboard. Google, I am disappoint.
You can type your calculation as a google query and you'll get the result. This calculator is designed for people looking for a mouse- / touch-based UI.
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#16No accumulator register. You have to click the keys. Reasonable evaluator. Avoids Javascript 0.1 * 0.2 float issues.
I'll stick with my 17 year old TI-92 though.
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#17What a complete load of shit. You have to actually click the numbers, you can't use your computer's keyboard. Google, I am disappoint.
You can type your calculation as a google query and you'll get the result. This calculator is designed for people looking for a mouse- / touch-based UI.
I'll admit that as I'm using my laptop touch devices didn't occur to me, just tried it on my phone and actually it works really well with touch.
But when on a non-touch device, even if you click on the calculator, focus remains on the search input, that seems like a massive UX failure to me.
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#18Link that works for people with non-English Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calculator (The link is setting the language to English for just that search.)
Thanks, I wonder why they would only enable this for English searches?
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#19Bah, humbug! If it's not RPN, it's crap! :)
Re: Google search's new basic calculator
#20Interesting how Microsoft and Google have different ideas of how percentage key (%) should work. Relevant post by Raymond Chen: “How does the [Windows] calculator percent key work?” http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/70474... Implementing % button, Google chose an approach which is more mathematically sensible but arguably less obvious to users. For Google, 10% just an alias for 0.1. This means th…
I just tested it and the percent key in the Google calculator doesn't work like the one described in the linked article. It really just divides by 100. 3 + 5% = 3 + 0.05 = 3.05
Sorry, I just reworded my comment to make it more clear.
This article is about Windows calculator and I'm comparing two different approaches.
Google went with simple 10% = 0.1 here, like you say.