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Showing posts with label reddit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reddit. Show all posts

Google Calculator: Math Fail

Category: , , , , By Suman Kar
Did you know that you can enter cos (pi/2) and get back a nice 0? The parentheses thingy is a matter you'd like to be careful with though. Because cos pi/2 is treated as (cos (pi))/2. For that matter, log, ln, e are all keywords (just like your pi) with proper arguments. What is surprising, unfortunately, is that there are no hyperbolic functions. Try with arccos, acos -- they don't work. One more of Google's strange omissions. Oddly enough, (9^9)^9 works and so does e^e^e whereas 9^9^9 doesn't! 5/5 returns 1, 1/0 doesn't work. Next, try out tan (pi/2) on your desktop calculator (if you don't know what it is). Mine says 'invalid input for function'. Google is smart, real smart. Check for yourself! Check out more Google oddities on reddit -- here.




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reddit photo gallery

Category: , , , By Suman Kar

Being the avid redditor, I couldn't help writing my custom photo-gallery. An Adobe® AIR™ based application. Here's a screen shot. Want it? Right-click and do a 'Save link as ...' here. (If there's a better way, let me know.)

Of course, you'd need to install the AIR runtime first.

There are some limitations: you don't see more than the top 25 images in each category. But then a 100 images is something of a start. Ain't it mate? Feature suggestions are most welcome.
 

reddit fail

Category: , , By Suman Kar
While still on a bloglific mode. Here's something I find confusing with reddit. What is the up arrow doing up there? Yeah, that's the number one post (and every other number one post). I'd bet they have a similar down arrow for every last post. (I mean I'd have done this differently.)

Main Entry: blog-li-fic
Pronunciation:\ˈblȯg-ˈli-fik, ˈbläg-ˈli-fik\
Function: noun
Etymology: blog + prolific
Date: 2008

Anyway, this prompted a yours truly's creation. So thanks, reddit.