Everyday Calculations for Estate Agents

Remember those scientific calculators from school with all the extra buttons like TAN, SIN and COS? They did amazing things when learning trigonometry, but you'd be hard pushed to find a reason to use them beyond those lessons.

Wolfram Alpha is an amazing website that suffers from a similar problem. Unless you're uber geeky, you may struggle to find reasons to use it every day. For those who haven't seen this website yet, it is a sort of hybrid between Google and that scientific calculator. You enter calculations or queries on a vast array of subjects and Wolfy gives you the answer and lots of other stats, graphs and data. It tells you such wonderfully trivial things as what the weather was like on the day you were born and how many calories are in 10 peanut M&Ms!

For an estate agent though, there are all sorts of sensible day to day things that you can use Wolfy to help you out with. Here are some some examples...

Calculating square footage:

You can use it to calculate monthly mortgage payments:

One of the most useful is calculating future dates. Like working out what the completion date will be if it's 10 days after exchange:

 

There's probably lots more, so let me know your suggestions if you can find other things Wolfram Alpha can do better than the calculator and the old grey matter.