Thursday, February 16, 2006

Google Calculator Demo

Click on the link to try the google calculator demo

15.50+10.50+150
100-150+200
2*3*7
378/9
4^10 or 4**10
15% of 93.45
26 mod 5 or 26 % 5 (the remainder after division)
4th root of 16
cube root of 1000
square root of 16
sqrt(144)
sqrt(-4)
(2+2)*4 causes the addition to happen before the multiplication.

Fahrenheit in Centigrade vice versa

30 centigrade in fahrenheit
92.5 fahrenheit in centigrade

Simple Doubts answered at once using Google Search box include

how many hours in a day?
how many minutes in a day?
how many seconds in a day?
how many seconds in an hour?
how many minutes in an hour?
how many seconds in an year?
how many seconds in a decade?
how many minutes in a sidereal day?
half a cup in teaspoons
160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

googol
speed of light in m/s

MB in 1 GB
KB in 1 GB
30 gigabytes / 160 kbps
1 hour * 128 kbps in megabytes

answer to life, the universe and everything

2*pi*radius of earth

The google calculator can solve basic maths, changing base of numbers, understands physical constants, conversion of units, currency conversion and lot more.


Currency Conversion in Google

To use our google for currency conversion, follow the examples
Here are some sample link to queries:

* 3.5 USD in GBP
* currency of Brazil in Malaysian money
* 5 British pounds in South Korean money
* 2.2 USD per gallon in INR per litre

1 USD in euros

currency of Britain in Indian money

Contants Google Understands
-this helps in astrological calculations

Long Name Shorthand

atomic mass units amu or u
Astronomical unit au
Avogadro's number N_A
Boltzmann's constant k
electric constant, permittivity of free space epsilon_0
electron mass m_e
electron volt eV
elementary charge
Faraday constant
fine-structure constant
gravitational constant G
magnetic constant, permeability of free space mu_0
magnetic flux quantum
mass of the moon m_moon
mass of the sun m_sun
mass of [planet name] m_mercury...
molar gas constant R
Planck's constant h and hbar
proton mass m_p
radius of the moon r_moon
radius of the sun s_moon
radius of [planet name] r_mercury
Rydberg constant
speed of light c
speed of sound (note: in air at sea level)
Stefan Boltzmann constant


Trigonometric functions
- arguments are assumed to be in radians

cos(pi/6)
cosine(pi/6)
arccos(.5)
cosh(6)
sinh, cosh, tanh, csch, arsinh, arccsch, etc.

ln Logarithm base e ln(16)
log Logarithm base 10 log(16)
lg Logarithm base 2 lg(16)
exp Exponential function exp(16)
! Factorial 5!

Convert from one base to another.

1500 in hex ( or 1500 in hex )
0xFF to decimal
0b010101 to octal
64 in binary
LVII in decimal

Reference :

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2003/08/14/fun_with.shtml
http://www.kottke.org/03/08/fun-with-the-google-calculator
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#currency
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/200-ngultrums-what-deal.html

Trivia:
1 hour * 128 kbps in megabytes is the hard disk size required to store one hour of 128kbps encoded mp3 music.

Friday, February 10, 2006

Exchange the Exchange Server for Gmail

This is history
Implementing Outlook Web Access with Exchange Server 2003

when Google's webmail service is here.
Google Webmail Service give email id for every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.

Gmail - 2 gigabytes of storage and search tools that help users find information fast.
Control Panel - Easily manage user accounts, aliases and mailing lists.
Apply here https://www.google.com/hosted/Home