Tuesday, January 14, 2014

How to Do Your Math using Spotlight for Mac

Have you ever had those times when you needed to do a quick calculation while working on your computer but didnt have a calculator handy. Of course, most OS will come with their own custom calculator but even opening the application may take a while. If you are using a Mac and already doing a lot of searches using Spotlight, you can try this trick.

Like in Google search, you can simply type in the math operations inside Spotlight and get the results straight away, like in the screenshot below.

Performing a calculation in Spotlight
Calculation in Spotlight showing number of hours in a year - 8760
Beyond the simple arithmetic like addition, subtraction and division (/), you can also perform advanced math operation like powers (e.g. 8^5), square root (e.g. sqrt(1358)) and trigonometric functions (e.g. sin (100))

Spotlight is definitely a quick and easy way to do some fast calculation while working on the Mac. Give it a try today.

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