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what’s a Patina?

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Following my previous post that covered how to look up the status of a flight on live.com, here’s a couple of other featurette’s that you may not be aware of.

We were watching a programme on TV last night where the word “patina” was mentioned. Any idea what a patina is? Live.com can tell you easily, just type “Define patina” into the search box and you’ll get a definition.

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I kind of like the calculator function too. Type “12.4 * 15 / 8” into the search box for example to get the answer 23.25.

Or you can try some formulas, for example try typing “2y + 3y = 8” into the search box and live.com tells you the value of y (1.6 of course).

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  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2009
    PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/index.php/2009/03/30/what%e2%80%99s-a-patina/

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2009
    Very clever! It even does simple quadratics: x^2 + 5x + 6 = 0

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2009
    I didn't know it would do that. If only I'd had this at school....

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2009
    In some previous blog posts ( here and here ) I talked about some little-known features of the live.com