Tuesday 6 December 2011

Google Adds Graphing Calculator Feature To Its Search Results

Google has this week rolled out a new functionality its added to its search results, with the addition of a new graphing calculator . Google’s new graphing calculator ids sure to be appreciated by maths fans and students worldwide.Students and lovers of all things math need merely to type in a function to the Google search bar, and the tool will render an interactive graph, Google explained today in a company blog announcing the new tool.
The graphing calculator feature now allows you to plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.
"You can zoom in and out and pan across the plane to explore the function in more detail. You can also draw multiple functions by separating them with commas," Google engineer Adi Avidor wrote. "This feature covers an extensive range of single variable functions including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and their compositions, and is available in modern browsers."
"I hope students and math lovers around the world find this experience as magical as I found the graphing calculator so long ago," Avidor wrote.



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