If you’re neck-deep in maths work, or just nostalgic for the high school days of your TI-83+, fire up the big G: it’ll now serve you as a graphing calculator. Time to make sine waves!
It’s pretty simple — plug in your formula of choice — say, x/3, (x/2)^2, ln(x), cos(pi*x/200) — and explore your graph a la Google Maps. Zoom in, zoom out, calculate. You just saved yourself a hundred bucks or so, and Google took a step closer to Wolfram Alpha. Both good things! Plug away. [Google via SearchEngineLand]
Splintex
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 1:53 PMOr you could just use wolfram alpha
Caesar Wong
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 12:35 PMYeah, this seems like a big “up yours” to the wolf-man.
Steve
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 3:09 PMRemember the day when I had to type this into MS Student, which was $100+ software to get this.
Richard
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 6:11 PMGraphmatica was always an option
Jake D
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:33 PMDoes it plot the batman logo? http://gizmodo.com/5826056/the-batman-equation
Nick
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:33 PMIronically, OS X has a graphing calc under utilities as well. I’m not sure why its there though, it’s clearly been forgotten about.
Steven
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:27 PMfunny my school runs macs, the look of shock on the maths teacher’s face when i showed him that lol
Jack
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:16 PMI love my Ti84, can load up so many answers into that thing before a test.