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• Calc command developed by javascript
  2007-06-01 10:11:10  goldrain [View]
  
  
  http://www.cmd4web.com
  Here is a calc command developed by javascript.

• One line version
  2006-08-23 23:43:44  Adam Trachtenberg | [View]
  
  
  For mysterious reasons, I came across this old hack of mine, and was able to rewrite it as a one liner:
  
  print str_replace('<font size=-2> </font>', ',' ,
  preg_replace('{.+.+= (.+?).+}s', '$1',
  file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/search?q=' .
  urlencode(join(' ', array_splice($argv, 1)))))) . "\n";
  
  To answer AdamJacobMuller, I use str_replace() instead of strip_tags() to insert pretty commas as thousands separators. Totally unnecessary, I know, but I think it makes the output more readable.

• Your Missing the point && optimized version
  2005-02-22 09:24:20  AdamJacobMuller [View]
  
  
  While bc and others are great unix command line calculators, there is one thing that they can't do. Conversions. While bc is a fantastic application how long would it take you, using the command line, to tell me how man lbs are in 10 tons in bc?
  unless you know by heart that there are 2000 lbs per ton, google calculate is going to be faster.
  On that note, here is my optimized version of this script
  

  
  
  #!/usr/bin/php -q
  
  <?
  
  preg_match_all("{<b>.+= (.+?)}",file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/search?q=".urlencode(join("+", array_splice($argv, 1)))), $matches);
  
  print strip_tags($matches[1][0])."\n";
  
  ?>
  
  

  
  I removed some things that had no place IMHO,
  The entire last line, what was the purpose of that? strip_tags is better and faster than str_replace.
  Ideally we would wrap this in a
  

  
  
  if (count($argv)>1) {
  
  preg_match_all("{.+= (.+?)}",file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/search?q=".urlencode(join("+", array_splice($argv, 1)))), $matches);
  
  print strip_tags($matches[1][0])."\n";
  
  } else {
  
  print $argv[0].": <some shit>";
  
  }
  
  

  
  Like i said, it's all IMHO so.....
• Your Missing the point && optimized version
  2007-02-06 16:31:31  donovandak [View]
  
  
  Hmm... the first of your "optimized" scripts has a bug...
  
  Try "24 bushels in pecks" and you'll get "9"...
  the answer should be 96 US pecks.
  
  Though maybe I copied it wrong...

• Ever heard of 'bc'? 'dc'?
  2003-10-05 09:31:16  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  This is such a studid idea. Calculating via google? How slow is that?
  
  

• Very cool
  2003-09-19 09:44:51  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Just to counterpoint, I think this hack is quite cool. Sure, it's simple. But that's the point. Now I just need to port it to perl so I don't have to have php installed locally. ;)
  
  Thanks for the idea!!
• RE: Very cool
  2003-10-15 15:36:57  miky [View]
  
  
  here's your perl hack (via tcsh alias):
  alias calc "perl -le 'print \!:1'"
• RE: Very cool
  2005-02-14 23:07:26  NiceGuy [View]
  
  
  Shouldn't it be
  alias calc "perl -le 'print \!*'"
  

• Stupid
  2003-09-11 22:15:17  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Sorry, but this hack was really stupid.
• Stupid
  2005-02-21 18:43:51  Inc_ [View]
  
  
  I'm from europe and don't really grok the "standards" system; I think in metric. With this
  hack I can do thing like:
  
  $ calc 5 feet + 5 inches in meters
  1.65100 meters
  
  $ calc 1 pint + 2 oz in liters
  0.532323534 liters
  
  Pure genius ;-)