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Calculators

See Also: Reference

AIDS Clock - Project of the United Nations counts as you watch current HIV infections worldwide

American Secular Holidays Calendar - Enter a year and receive a lists of dates for U.S. holidays; Marcos J. Montes

ATM Locator - Visa

Aunt Edna's Kitchen Utilities

Banner Generator Form

Body mass calculator

Calculator.com - Calculators for finance, business, science, cooking, hobbies, and health.

Calculator-in-the-url - Magnus Bodin's site "demonstrates the weirdest URL-tricks. YOU change the hostname to the function and arguments you want; and you get the result on the homepage of the site.

Calculators - Financial calculators from Moneysearch.com

Calculators on the Web - Money Mentor

Calendar Conversions - Allows you to convert dates amoung various calendar systems (Julian, Gregorian, Jewish and French).

Check Your System Clock - U S Naval Observatory site checks you computer clock to within one second. Other time-related sites: Steffen Thorsen's World Clock, Timezone Converter, Local Times Around the World, U.S. Naval Observatory's Time Service Dept. with Master Clock time, and Daylight Saving Time.

Classic 164 Currency Convertor - OANDA

Cliché Finder - S. Morgan Friedman has indexed over 3,300 clichés.

Cost-of-Living Calculator - NewsEngin

Countdown! - How many seconds, minutes, hours, days have you been alive?

Crossword Solver - Phillip Miller Eberz. See also Michael Littman's One Across.

Date and Time Gateway - Collection of estimates of the quantities of data contained by the various media.

The Dialectizer - Converts web page into dialect of your choice

dMarie Time Capsules - Enter a date between 1900 and 1997 and find headlines, top songs, prices, Academy Award winners. See also the Library of Congress's Today in History and the History Channel's This Day in History.

Financial Calculators - Independent Financial Planning, Ottawa, Ontario

Form for Mortgage payment query

Highways highways everywhere... - Searchable list of U.S. interstate highways, including numbers of miles covered, connecting routes, and major cities crossed

Historic Quotes - Yahoo tool allows you to enter a ticker symbol and date (or range of dates) and retrieve the exact closing price for the stock. This service also provided by BigCharts.

Home & Garden Television: Calculators

Home Energy Advisor - EPA

HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers - Generated by radioactive decay; John Walker

How far is it? - "This service uses the University of Michigan Geographic Name Server and a supplementary database of world cities to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server."

Inflation Calculator - Columbia Journalism Review tool allows you to convert dollars from a past year into recent year dollars, adjusted for inflation.

International Salary Calculator - Determines the salary you would need to make in a new city, based on cost-of-living differences for more than 500 U.S. and Canadian cities.

Internet Anagram Server - Also known as Rearrangement Servant. See also AnagramFun.

International Calculator - U. S. Postal Service. There's also a Domestic Calculator

InterShipper - Enter in your package specifications below and get your shipping costs online for US Postal Service, UPS and FedExpress.

Java Morse Code Translator

Lee's Useless Decimal to Roman Numeral Converter

Local Times Around the World - Compare to Timezone Converter and World Clock

MapBlast - Vicinity Corporation's site provides maps & directions

MapQuest - Provides maps & detailed directions, with many customizing options

Martindale's The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line

Measurement Conversion Calculator - Entisoft

Measurements Converter - Sergey Gershtein, Ural-Relcom, Ltd.

Mortgage and Financial Calculators - Hugh Chou

OneLook Dictionaries - 2994189 words in 595 dictionaries

Online Conversion - Conversion tables to convert just about anything to anything (Acceleration Equivalents, Area Equivalents, Energy/Work Equivalents, Power Equivalents, Length Equivalents, Mass Equivalents, Metrology Equivalents, Pressure Equivalents, Temperature Equivalents, U.S. Fluid or Liquid Equivalents, Velocity Equivalents, Volume/Capacity Equivalents).

Percent Change Calculator - NewsEngin

Perpetual Calendar - Toke Nørby. Also try the Calendar Generator from HyperInfo Canada or Virtual Perpetual Calendars.

Pig Latin Converter - Little Rome

Pop Clocks - U.S. Census Bureau's current population counts

Rhyming dictionary

Sallie Mae Financial Aid Calculators

Shakespearean Insulter - Chris Seidel

Shredder - Mark Napier's site transforms a Web page's text and graphics. (See Matthew Mirapaul's review, When Artists Build Their Own Browsers in the December 3rd, 1998 New York Times Cybertimes.)

Spelling Test

Sunrise/Sunset computation - Times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, twilight, and other astronomical data are available from USNO's Astronomical Applications Department.

Surrealist Compliment Generator - Jardin Mécanisme

T. Rowe Price College Investment Calculator

Tide/Current Predictor

Time Zone Convertor

U.S. Gazetteer - On this U.S. Census Bureau site you can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code.

U.S.G.S. Mapping Information - U.S. Geological Survey. See also USGS GNIS

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Searchable Databases - See also Databases: Patent Grant and Patent Application.

USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference - Enter a food and get a breakdown of its nutrients.

UV Index - Imput your zipcode and this EPA site provides an Ultraviolet forecast for your area.

Timber and Lumber Calculators - Woodweb

Tree Ring Search Page - NOAA Paleoclimatology Program

U.S. Official Time Clock - Eastern Standard time

What Does Your Phone Number Spell? - Jeremy Grodberg

What is a Dollar Worth? - Uses the Consumer Price Index to make various calculations (Woodrow Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

WWWebster Dictionary

Zip2 Yellow Pages - Provides maps & directions

ZipFind - Calculates the distance between two zip codes among other things