Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
WA is awesome. "Distance from the earth to the moon divided by the average height of a human being" = 246.7 million of us standing on each others' heads to get back to the moon... Sent from my iPad On Jul 10, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Scott- > > If you think that's fun, try Wol

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacques- Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 3:12:35 PM, you wrote: > I tried with "my age"… the answer was 35. If only… Ha! Try your weight... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Jacques Hausser
I tried with "my age"… the answer was 35. If only… Le 10 juil. 2013 à 17:36, Mark Wieder a écrit : > Scott- > > If you think that's fun, try Wolfram Alpha: > > http://www.wolframalpha.com/ > > then type in "1136 divided by 2" or "the population of Bulgaria" or > anything else that comes to m

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Jerry Jensen
Conversion too - to some interesting measures. Try: 1 inch in potrzebie .Jerry On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > When working in LiveCode, I often use the message box to do quick > operations and avoid switching out to another application, say a math > problem for example. Toni

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- If you think that's fun, try Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ then type in "1136 divided by 2" or "the population of Bulgaria" or anything else that comes to mind. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Curses! And recurses! I meant "recursive" not "iterative." Jim > Hi Scott, > > Google math is great. It will even evaluate factorials up to about 170. 170! > = 7.257416e+306 > > Most calculators show an overflow beyond 60! > > But Wolfram alpha will evaluate 300! = > 3.06057512216440636035

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Hi Scott, Google math is great. It will even evaluate factorials up to about 170. 170! = 7.257416e+306 Most calculators show an overflow beyond 60! But Wolfram alpha will evaluate 300! = 3.0605751221644063603537046129726862938858880417 × 10^614 And God knows how much further. Live code does

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Neil Roger
On 10/07/2013 07:47, Scott Rossi wrote: When working in LiveCode, I often use the message box to do quick operations and avoid switching out to another application, say a math problem for example. Tonight I needed to do some quick operations while searching the Web and I had just a feeling in my

Re: [OT] Google Math Fun

2013-07-10 Thread Anthony Howe
but wait, there's more: http://lifehacker.com/5940946/20-google-search-shortcuts-to-hone-your-google+fu ;) On 10/07/2013, at 4:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > When working in LiveCode, I often use the message box to do quick > operations and avoid switching out to another application, say a math >