Google Calculator

8:04pm, 12th August 2003

Google continues to show off its computational surpluses by integrating a calculator into the search box. Are they trying to build a command line for the web? I wonder how long until it evaluates Python expressions? Perhaps they could get the CPU cycles from Toolbar users.

Searching for 2^1023 gives you the answer, but 2^1024 evidently overflows somewhere and defaults to a regular search.


Comment

  1. JOnNy said at 5:24am on the 29th of March, 2004:

    i tried this at google: 2^1023.999999999999 and it returned: 1.79769313e308



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