[Coco] [OT] Math in search engines (was One-liners coming through!)

[John Guin]

Yahoo, Live and google support simple math in search boxes - it's sometimes
called "napkin math."

Google has a decent explanation at
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Brian Blake
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:41 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] One-liners coming through!

George,

I just typed in my results from the Vcc emulator, 81E+38, into a Yahoo
search bar and it came back with the actual number it represents. Correct or
not, I flew with it since there was no way I was going to try and do the
conversion myself, and I didn;t have a real CoCo3 to test it. The emulator
overflowed at the 81E+38. 


Brian


----- Original Message ----
From: George's Coco Address <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:02:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] One-liners coming through!


I don't know what this means....

I did try this with Basic09 and when it got to a point, it seems to 
choke....

1.8547708E+37
3.00108219E+37
4.85585298E+37
7.85693518E+37
1.27127882E+38
1.77643598E-39
1.27127882E+38
1.27127882E+38
2.19579563E-39
1.27127882E+38
1.27127882E+38
2.19579563E-39
1.27127882E+38
1.27127882E+38

Brian, how did you find this on Yahoo? I have no idea what these numbers 
mean.


From: "Brian Blake"
> Well my real coco3 is at home and Vcc was the only thing I have installed 
> on my PC at work. In either case +37 or +38, I cannot concieve a need, in 
> my life, to work with a number that large...
>
> BTW... thanks yahoo:
>
> 8,099,999,999,999,997,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000



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