Adam Trachtenberg » hacks http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog Thoughts on PHP, eBay, and too many technical topics for my family's liking. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Google Command Line Calculator http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/02/08/google-command-line-calculator/ http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2005/02/08/google-command-line-calculator/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:00:00 +0000 Adam Trachtenberg http://www.trachtenberg.com/wordpress/?p=4 In a somewhat shocking move, my Google Command Line Calculator hack was picked up for the second edition of Google Hacks.

I found this out from Rael back in October at Web 2.0, but I forgot to blog about it. I finally picked up a copy when I crashed the O’Reilly booth at MacWorld. Sure enough, I am Hack #47: Bring the Google Calculator to the Command Line.

I know hard core Unix weenies use bc and dc, but I don’t want to bother with the reverse-polish, thank you very much. Besides, Google supports a variety of non-standard features, like unit conversion, roman numerals, and physical constants.

In exchange for contributing my hack, I receive fame, glory, my bio at the front of the book, and blogging rights.

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