July 14, 2020

Hide your math: Relaunching Startpage’s Private Calculator

From 2+2 to the square root of 222, compute calculations without being tracked or building a search history

Startpage users look to us for much more than delivering the world’s most private search engine, which is why we’re welcoming back our new-and-improved private calculator, because your personal calculations should be private too.

To quote a Reddit user “If my calculator had a history, it would be more embarrassing than my browser history.” (https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/51x0nl/if_my_calculator_had_a_history_it_would_be_more/)

Our driving goal is to deliver useful, private tools that match services available via non-private search engines, ensuring Startpage users don’t have to sacrifice privacy for utility! For that reason, our team is dedicating time and effort to build out a robust set of Instant Answers features that intelligently analyzes your query to surface quick, insightful results– starting with a simple, sleek calculator.

The calculator, available in all Startpage themes, is live now. Go ahead, do some math – we won’t be watching.

 

How to use our private calculator:

You can trigger calculator IA by searching: “calc”, “calculator”, or a query composed entirely of supported math symbols.

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Install Startpage's private search browser extension.

Supported Functions:

  • abs
  • arccos / acos
  • arccosh / acosh
  • arcsin / sin
  • arcsinh / asinh
  • arctan / Satan
  • arctanh / atanh
  • cos
  • cosh
  • log (base 10)
  • lg (log base 2)
  • ln
  • sin
  • sinh
  • sqrt / √
  • tan
  • tanh

Supported Operators:

  • ^
  • × *
  • ÷ /
  • +
  • %
  • !

Supported Constants:

  • π / pi
  • e

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