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Google Valentine's Day Surprise: Latest Easter Egg Has A Love Theme

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Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 10/02/2012 12:23 Updated: 10/02/2012 12:24

Google is embracing the spirit of Valentine’s Day… with a nightmarish mathematical equation.

But thankfully, the formula, if typed into the search facility, produces a baby blue love heart, Mashable revealed.

To try it out yourself, paste in the following:
sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5

It’s the latest “Easter Egg” offering from the search engine giant, which brought winter weather to desktops across the world at Christmas.

Typing “let it snow” prompted digital snowflakes to start falling across your screen. You could wipe away the frost by using your cursor as an ice scraper or pressing the “defrost” button, which appeared in place of the blue “search” button.

In November, typing “do a barrel roll” sent search screens into a 360-degree spin. The treat was a reference to the 1997 videogame Star Fox 64 and the effect was like a fighter pilot executing an in-flight barrel roll in the wild blue yonder.


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Google is embracing the spirit of Valentine’s Day… with a nightmarish mathematical equation. But thankfully, the formula, if typed into the search facility, produces a baby blue love heart, Ma...
Google is embracing the spirit of Valentine’s Day… with a nightmarish mathematical equation. But thankfully, the formula, if typed into the search facility, produces a baby blue love heart, Ma...
 
 
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Norman Mitchison
14:21 on 10/02/2012
For a moment I thought the surprise was they were taking the day off. Disappointed.
14:11 on 10/02/2012
This is not an intentional Easter egg by Google, it's just how the plot of this expression (of those 3 expressions) looks (try it in Wolfram Alpha for example).