I (Heart) Google

Today I found myself having to answer an obscure math question: what’s hexadecimal 59 divided by hexadecimal FF. I didn’t have a physical scientific calculator available so I tried a number of web-based calculator widgets (because I didn’t want to install new software just to do some hex arithmetic and I certainly wasn’t going to do it manually with a computer sitting in front of me).

None of them could answer this silly question.

So then I thought, what about searching google? Maybe someone has posted the answer somewhere on the web. I went to google and typed in “0x59 / 0xFF” and got something even better.

Apparently google’s had a built in calculator/converter for a while now, but it was a rather pleasant surprise for me.