Education
529 vs taxable + state deduction + projected college cost coverage %.
20 amino acids — codes, names, codons · 3 curricula
Your attendance %, and how many classes you can still miss
Convert CGPA to percentage and back — instantly
APA / MLA / Chicago / Harvard
See what your education fund grows to — and how much is growth
ρ = m/V — solve for density, mass or volume · 7 curricula
M₁V₁ = M₂V₂ — work out a solution dilution · 3 curricula
"What do I need on the final?"
Codon ↔ amino acid lookup + full code table · 7 curricula
ΔG = ΔH − TΔS — solve and check spontaneity · 3 curricula
Q = mcΔT — solve for heat, mass, specific heat or ΔT · 3 curricula
118 elements, names in your curriculum language · 7 curricula
KE = ½mv² — solve for energy, mass or velocity · 3 curricula
M = objective × eyepiece — work out magnification · 3 curricula
Parse a chemical formula, sum the atomic masses · 7 curricula
M = n/V — solve for molarity, moles, volume or mass · 7 curricula
Moles ↔ particles ↔ mass · 3 curricula
p = mv — solve for momentum, mass or velocity · 3 curricula
GPA across global grading scales
F = Gm₁m₂/r² — solve for force, mass or distance · 7 curricula
F = ma — solve for force, mass or acceleration · 7 curricula
Write any number in words
V = IR — solve for voltage, current or resistance · 7 curricula
How far a measurement is from the true value, as a percentage
pH ↔ pOH ↔ [H⁺] ↔ [OH⁻] — convert any one · 7 curricula
PE = mgh — solve for energy, mass or height · 3 curricula
Solve a : b = c : x for the missing value
Monohybrid & dihybrid crosses, instant ratios · 7 curricula
ax^2+bx+c=0 real + complex
Simplify any ratio to its lowest terms
Nth term and sum of an arithmetic or geometric sequence
n₁sinθ₁ = n₂sinθ₂ — solve for index or angle · 3 curricula
The GPA you need from here to hit your goal
Grade a test in seconds — percentage, letter and a full chart
SSS/SAS/ASA/AAS/SSA
Add up the real cost of a degree, credit by credit
v = fλ — solve for speed, frequency or wavelength · 3 curricula
Your current course grade — and what you need on what’s left
AI writing practice with instant feedback, plus interactive lessons
iFlytek's LLM line: free assistant, domestic-compute X2.5, small open models
Khan Academy's AI tutor that guides students to answers instead of giving them
80+ free AI tools for K-12 teachers, from lesson plans to grading
Scan a maths problem and see every step, free; owned by Google since 2023
Browser-based platform to build, host and run apps, with Replit Agent built in
Youdao's AI English-speaking tutor with virtual tutors and IELTS practice
How many kana there are depends on which list is counted
Japanese is written partly in hiragana and katakana, and a learner's chart shows 46 kana, but the official kan...
EV
19 Oct
Tempo charts disagree on how many beats a minute Andante means
Six published sources give Andante anywhere from 56 to 108 beats a minute, and by our count only 76 and 77 fal...
EV
15 Oct
Hundreds of subject combinations can add up to the same PSLE Score
Singapore's PSLE Score adds four Achievement Levels into a total from 4 to 32, where lower is better, and MOE...
NA
15 Oct
Over a third of a Hokkien dictionary's syllables change between Pe̍h-ōe-jī and Tâi-lô
Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) and Tâi-lô are two ways of writing Hokkien in Latin letters, and Tâi-lô is the scheme Taiwan'...
EV
15 Oct
Readability formulas fitted to the same readers still disagree by about a grade and a half
Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG and other readability formulas give one text different grade levels because each counts a...
NA
12 Oct
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer agree on 15.8% of a Korean learner's dictionary
Revised Romanization and McCune-Reischauer both spell Korean as it is pronounced, yet they spell only 15.8% of...
EV
12 Oct
South Korea's limit on hanja in names is an exact sum of three lists
South Korea's schools have a list of 1,800 basic hanja, and its name rules allow 9,389 entries (인명용 한자),...
AM
3 Oct
Japan's 2020 school kanji table moved more characters than it added
Japanese elementary schools teach 1,026 kanji. The 2020 table added 20 prefecture kanji and moved 37 others be...
AM
3 Oct
Chinese measure words ranked by how often they are actually used
How often 个 really fills the measure-word slot in Chinese text, which two dozen classifiers (量词) cover nine...
NA
30 Sep
HSK 3.0 word counts by level, and how far old HSK words carry over
The syllabus the new HSK is tested on lists 11,000 words: 300 for level 1 up to 5,400 by level 6, with levels...
NA
30 Sep
Chinese character riddles, and how to solve them
一口咬掉牛尾巴 — one mouth bites off the ox's tail. Bite the tail off 牛, put 口 underneath, and you have writ...
EV
25 Sep
When yi (一) and bu (不) change tone, and why pinyin usually doesn't show it
一 is said yí before a fourth tone and yì before the others; 不 becomes bú only before a fourth tone; and a th...
NA
23 Sep
How Zhuyin (bopomofo) maps to pinyin, and where a simple chart goes wrong
Zhuyin's 37 symbols line up with pinyin letters, so a chart gets you most of the way. But against every syllab...
KE
23 Sep
How many Chinese characters cover 90% of what you read
About a thousand characters make up 90% of written Chinese, but in film subtitles it is 717, and half of what...
NA
22 Sep
Counting the sounds a Mandarin tongue twister is built to drill
Mandarin tongue twisters are built from pairs of sounds that some speakers pronounce the same. Counting those...
EV
21 Sep
22.4 litres is only correct if you say at what pressure
A mole of ideal gas occupies 22.414 litres at one atmosphere and 22.711 litres at one bar, and NIST publishes...
NA
16 Sep
New York City Halts Student-Facing AI for a Year, Covering 600,000 Students
A moratorium from 2-K to grade 8, five high school pilots capped at 50,000, and a companion-chatbot prohibitio...
MA
3 Sep
There is no single order to learn Chinese characters
There are at least four orderings, built for different jobs, and they disagree about the first hundred charact...
EV
31 Aug
PaperCut Was Being Exploited for a Day Before It Had a CVE Number
The 27 August advisory confirmed active exploitation while carrying no identifier, no severity score and no vu...
PR
30 Aug
Hugging Face's $399 Robot Duck Ships With Its Training Recipe
Apache 2.0 covers the control stack, the pipeline and all seven shipped policies. The reward functions, domain...
MA
29 Aug
Dilute It Tenfold. The pH Moves One Unit, or None at All.
C1V1 = C2V2 looks like arithmetic but is a physical claim with four assumptions inside it. Dilute a strong aci...
NA
8 Aug
Grades, GPAs and What They Convert To
NUS publishes separate grade profiles for A-level and polytechnic applicants, and none at all for IB — because...
NA
1 Aug
Nobody Is Training the People This Job Actually Needs
I read the entry requirements of every Forward Deployed Engineer programme I could find, then read what Singap...
JE
31 Jul
Instructure Reaches Agreement With ShinyHunters After Canvas Breach Exposes 275 Million Records Across 8,809 Schools
After ShinyHunters stole 3.65TB of data from 8,809 schools using the Canvas LMS, Instructure reached an agreem...
CY
23 May