{"id":1035,"date":"2008-03-21T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:01:29","slug":"friday-math-movie-google-tricks-hacks-and-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-google-tricks-hacks-and-easter-eggs-1035","title":{"rendered":"Friday Math Movie - Google Tricks, Hacks and Easter Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it's Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Easter is a 'movable feast'. It always falls on a Sunday somewhere between March 22 and April 25. Its date is generally agreed to be the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of interesting mathematics arising out of Easter dates. For example, the date of Easter is supposed to repeat after \"exactly 5,700,000 years\" according to this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easter\">Wikipedia article<\/a>. There are calls for reform on the date of Easter since not everyone agrees on the date.<\/p>\n<p>On to the movie which admittedly has only a little bit about Easter and not much about math \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n<p>This week's movie contains some fun stuff and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/the-ultimate-list-of-math-hacks-tricks-and-tips-13088\">tricks<\/a> you can do with Google. The math comes towards the end, when we find that Google has a mathematical solution for the greatest mystery of life - and the universe. It uses Google's calculator function.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gsv2g8BdRCo\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-google-tricks-hacks-and-easter-eggs-1035#comments\" id=\"comms\">3 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-google-tricks-hacks-and-easter-eggs-1035\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/03\/ewmew-google.gif' alt='Google ewmew fudd' class='imgRt' \/><\/a>This week's movie contains stuff you never knew you could do on Google - and a mathematical meaning of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[125,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13191,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/13191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}