Voxeo Talks

Ever had that moment when you really wanted to know the square root of a number? Or maybe the sine or cosine of an angle? (Believe it or not, I recently did when building something out of wood.) Or maybe you wanted to quickly convert a decimal number to hex? or vice versa? Or maybe you just wanted a quick random number?

Well, now all of that and much, much more is right at your fingertips through IM by way of “Math bot” created by Vinay Raikar:

http://wg.vinayraikar.com/apps/math/

You simply add “math@bot.im” as a contact to your Jabber or GoogleTalk IM account and start asking away. Vinay Raikar suggests this example:

sin(deg2rad(1.2))-tan(30)-exp(1.1)*2/pow(7,1.1)-fact(2)

although I personally went more for examples like:

rand()
dechex(24)
fact(12)

and of course the VERY useful:

help

Which lists all the commands available as well as constants that you can use in your expressions.

All in all a rather fun and creative use of our IMified platform. Kudos to Vinay Raikar for creating this bot.

If you’d like to try your hand at creating applications like this, please head over to IMified.com where you can sign up for a free developer account, read the API docs and get started right away.

If you have created an interesting IMified application and are open to having it publicized here, please email me and I’ll take a look.

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