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#1 2010-02-07 06:26:09
- John E. Franklin
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Googlable Math
Wouldn't it be nice if
you could google on
an equation? Sure
wish you could. But
as soon as you type
some things like a
plus sign, you are
doomed, and your
search no longer finds
equations with plus
signs in them, even
if you put everything
into double quotes.
Imagine for a moment that even an earthworm may possess a love of self and a love of others.
#2 2010-02-07 06:45:40
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Re: Googlable Math
I think google basically just stores things by letters and numbers.
So if you have an equation like:
or
y = x^2 + 3x - 6
I suppose google will not find it.
But if you typed only letters and numbers like:
y eq x up 2 add 3 x sub 6
then you could google on it, at least now in 2010, until
google upgrades to include funny math symbols...
Last edited by John E. Franklin (2010-02-07 06:48:08)
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#3 2010-02-07 12:38:11
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Re: Googlable Math
Hi John;
Interesting idea but when I googled for that form with or without quotes it didn't turn up any occurrences of that quadratic.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#4 2010-02-07 12:40:37
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Re: Googlable Math
It will take a month or so before google finds this post and incorporates it into it's library.
And in fact google may not find every post we have. I have shown this to be true on occasion
once where Yahoo did find it.
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#5 2010-02-07 12:43:13
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Re: Googlable Math
Google finds that post, but I thought you were trying to find equations on google.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#6 2010-02-07 12:43:21
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Re: Googlable Math
Oh cool, guess what!! I just googled on:
"y eq x up 2 add 3"
and it is already in the library of google!!
It found this post, only hours after you, bobby!
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#7 2010-02-07 12:44:57
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Re: Googlable Math
Oh, I see what you are saying.
What I mean is, if you have a very important
equation, then you could post that equation
in more than one language, so one of them
might be googlable, and the other more
readable like LaTeX.
Imagine for a moment that even an earthworm may possess a love of self and a love of others.