Get your calc on

March 23, 2003 10:56 AM

Webcalc solves over 100 different equations online.
posted by walrus (11 comments total)

Link no worky...but assuming it does, where the hell was this when I *needed* it back in undergrad math/stats classes...?! :-)
posted by davidmsc at 11:01 AM on March 23, 2003

is it http://www.webcalc.net?
posted by andrew cooke at 11:02 AM on March 23, 2003

Damn, good catch davidmsc. Correct link to webcalc.
posted by walrus at 11:03 AM on March 23, 2003

Neat. But it would be cooler (and more useful for the school crowd) if it had the proofs too.
posted by degnarra at 11:04 AM on March 23, 2003

O fer chrissake. How to find the perimeter of a triangle, given the lengths of the sides? You've got to be kidding.
posted by gleuschk at 11:04 AM on March 23, 2003

You're right gleuschk, that is a little facile. I found this one to be a bit of a no-brainer as well.
posted by walrus at 11:19 AM on March 23, 2003

Too bad it doesn't check for validity. I did the above triangle calculation with lengths 1, 1 and 100. Sure enough, it gave be a perimeter of 102. It also accepts non-positive lengths.

But overall, quite handy if you already have some mathmatical sense.
posted by Monk at 11:19 AM on March 23, 2003

Much more interesting to me is tools like the Fair Division calculator which you can use to fairly divide rent or pies among a number of people.
posted by vacapinta at 11:27 AM on March 23, 2003

Or The Integrator™.
posted by eddydamascene at 11:35 AM on March 23, 2003

Quick Math. Used in combination with SOS Math were a pair I found useful in school..
posted by Mossy at 11:44 AM on March 23, 2003

I should also mention this huge list of practical calculators online.
posted by vacapinta at 11:47 AM on March 23, 2003