Here’s something cool from Chris Pirillo – type in an algebraic equation into MSN Search with a missing value ‘x’ and it will solve x for you. Observe what happens when you type in ’2+4x=10′:
Pretty cool, I think you’ll agree. Still, it hasn’t implemented the equivalent of Google’s calaculator, so I can’t type in “2 pints in litres” and find the result like I can with Google.
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November 17, 2004 at 11:40
Ack it even solves (polynomial) equations!
http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=x%5E2+-+4x+%2B4+%3D+0
November 17, 2004 at 23:17
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