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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.
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#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.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#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.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#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.