Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Friday, December 16, 2005

Will my grandchildren ever have to remember the quadratic formula?

MSN Search Solves Equations: For those tackling math equations, MSN Search has a nice feature: it solves them. Try [((122.78+(x^2))/190)=.93] and the direct answer (as taken from MSN Encarta) will read:

((122.78+( x^2))/190)=.93 = x=7.343024 x=-7.343024

And that's a feature not even the Google Calculator has.

Now I can procrastinate by feeding it equations, hoping to find one that will break it...

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