Here are some small Google Calculator bugs.
Bug #1:
The Google Calculator results of these arbitrary calculations include a space instead of nothing or a comma:
32*128
32 * 128 = 4 096
Bug #1:
The Google Calculator results of these arbitrary calculations include a space instead of nothing or a comma:
32*128
32 * 128 = 4 096
33*27*8
33 * 27 * 8 = 7 128
44+7^4
44 + (7^4) = 2 445
The reason it's a trivial bug is that a user may copy and paste one of these results into another equation and get an error because Google Calculator inserted an erroneous space.
44+7^4
44 + (7^4) = 2 445
The reason it's a trivial bug is that a user may copy and paste one of these results into another equation and get an error because Google Calculator inserted an erroneous space.
Bug #2:
If you perform a Google Calculator operation, under the computational result Google displays a link asking you whether you want to search for documents containing the terms you entered in the search box.
Example:
(823^2)*5/9082
((823^2) * 5) / 9 082 = 372.896388
Search for documents containing the terms (823^2)*5/9082.
You might expect the suggested search to return documents containing the calculation:
(823^2)*5/9082
However, if you click the link Google Search runs this erroneous query:
823 2 * "5 9082"
Google threw away the "^" and "/" operators, probably changed the "*" multiplication operator to a string wildcard operator, and for unknown, spurious, reasons it changed 5/9082 to an exact phrase by surrounding it with quotes.
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