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Wolfram Alpha

Started by Rogles, May 19, 2009, 03:26:58 pm

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Rogles

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

I really don't know how to explain it... the site says:

Making the world's knowledge computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

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UglyJoe

It has no knowledge of pop culture, so most people seem to think it's broken.

Rogles

( ´_ゝ`)

Byron

It just told me that I'm seven thousand five hundred and six days old.

That's pretty cool, I guess.

Jedi Master Baiter

Big deal, I'm approximately 741,100,000 seconds old - beat that! :P

Byron

I can't, you're 95,900,000 seconds older than me.

Jedi Master Baiter

At least it knows this:

http://www42.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life%2C+the+universe%2C+and+everything

UglyJoe


JC

That's fun. I like this thing.

HERE

manuel

It's nice, but it doesn't have many answers to my special questions.  :-\