Use Google to Solve Simple & Complicated Mathematics

I’m a very lazy students, I love doing things easily without undergoing unnecessary stress. My co-friends called me smart, because I take the easy route most time and come out excellently.

Google is my good friend, and the secret of my smartness. For every student to have outstanding results, Google must not be left out since it can direct you to many resources that will help you succeed. Apart from the fact that Google helps to garner the best resources for success, it also possess an inbuilt capabilities that can help with simple and complicated mathematical problems without much ado. It remembered some years back when I was still in high school, my teacher asked us to solve for 50!, I immediately typed it on Google and it brought out the result instantly without using calculator. Click here to verify.

Today, I want to explain how you can easily use your browser and Google to solve for simple and complicated mathematical problems without much ado using Google’s built-in calculator function.

1. Basic Arithmetic

To easily compute mathematical expressions that contains symbols, the following table lists operators that come between the two numbers on which they operate, e.g., to multiply 5 times 6, use 5 * 6.

Operator	Function	Example
+	Addition	[ 20.99 + 50.50 + 17.25 ]
–	Subtraction	[ 99 – 28 – 39 ]
*	Multiplication	[ 2 * 3 * 4 ]
/	Division	[ 378 / 9 ]
^ or **	Exponentiation (raise to a power of)	[ 4^10 ] or [ 4**10 ]
% of	Percent	[ 15% of 93.45 ]
mod or %	modulo (the remainder after division)	[ 15 mod 9 ] or [ 15 % 9 ]
the nth root of	calculates the nth root	[ 4th root of 16 ]; [ cube root of 109 ]; [ square root of 42 ] or [ sqrt(42) ]

2. Advanced Math

To easily compute mathematical problems involving constants such as: e, pi, i (the square root of –1), and mathematical functions. The following table lists some of the functions built into Google’s calculator.

Operator	Function	Example
sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, cot, etc.	Trigonometric functions (arguments are assumed to be in radians)	[ cos(pi/6) ]; [ cosine(pi/6) ]
arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccsc, etc.	Inverse trigonometric functions	[ arccos(.5) ]
sinh, cosh, tanh, csch, arsinh, arccsch, etc.	Hyperbolic functions	[ cosh(6) ]
ln	Logarithm base e	[ ln(16) ]
log	Logarithm base 10	[ log(16) ]
lg	Logarithm base 2	[ lg(16) ]
exp	Exponential function	[ exp(16) ]
!	Factorial	[ 5! ]
choose	x choose y calculates the number of ways of choosing a set of y elements from a set of x distinct elements	[ 5 choose 3 ]

The following table lists just a few of the commonly used mathematical constants known to the calculator function.

Name and description	Example
base of the natural system of logarithms	[ e ]
pi, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle	[ pi/6 ]
imaginary number, i, which represents one of the two square roots of -1	[ i^2 ]
Euler’s constant, gamma	[ e^gamma ]

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