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BBS
Germany204 Posts
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khy
United States475 Posts
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.  | ||
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seakebab
Australia54 Posts
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
Dude, its made for math formulas and shit and it doesn't even have the math formula that was probably used about a thousand times to make the damned thing. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
On May 16 2009 22:08 Chuiu wrote: Dude, its made for math formulas and shit and it doesn't even have the math formula that was probably used about a thousand times to make the damned thing. so, curious, what did you expect it to spit out when you put up big O? link to wiki? once again, that's not what walpha does | ||
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Clasic
Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts
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The Raurosaur
198 Posts
For example, I input 2^2 and it returns "4". I input primes >= 4 and it returns a bunch of prime numbers greater than 4. But when I input primes >= (2^2) it flips out and gets confused. If you ask it for median salary ohio fireman it returns "$38 890 per year" and some nice graphs. But if you change it to median salary UK lawyer it doesn't return anything. A little experimentation suggests that it doesn't have salary data for the UK - so it should tell us this, rather than saying it doesn't know what we're talking about. Instead, it suggests median salary UK Okay, I think, maybe this is the median salary for all people in the UK (not just lawyers). What does it return? "$2.801 trillion per year". wtf? While this is very exciting and has a great deal of potential, there's a lot of little problems, and the user-friendliness needs to be improved greatly. (Also, as an aside, I don't think this even intends to be a google killer. Google finds webpages, whereas Wolfram Alpha is for getting computable knowledge. In fact, whenever you enter a query into Wolfram Alpha, at the bottom right of the results page is a "search the web" link which takes you directly to google, showing that Wolfram don't consider Google a threat to their market share. The way I see it, Wolfram Alpha is more of a cross between Wikipedia (or some other giant online encyclopedia) and a calculator; not a Google equivalent.) | ||
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Jusciax
Lithuania588 Posts
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Answer: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Almost. I asked about maximum capacity, not intent. | ||
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inlagdsil
Canada957 Posts
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=porn&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit | ||
Kinky
United States4126 Posts
I get a computational timeout or something after the site lags hard. Too many people overloading the engine? | ||
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
On May 17 2009 04:12 HeadBangaa wrote: Question: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Answer: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Almost. I asked about maximum capacity, not intent. Actually it gave you an answer just fine. | ||
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
On May 17 2009 03:17 JeeJee wrote: so, curious, what did you expect it to spit out when you put up big O? link to wiki? once again, that's not what walpha does Did you even attempt to read my post? I expected it to spit out what I said in my post. Not a wikipedia link, not a list of websites, nothing like that. I fully understand what the website is for. The wikipedia link was for anyone ignorant enough to think I actually expected this website to be google. Obviously it goes deeper than that. + Show Spoiler [if you still need it spelled out] + THE EQUATION FOR BIG O. ONE OF THE THINGS THE WEBSITE WAS PROGRAMMED FOR. | ||
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
Agreed. Not even mathematica numerically evaluates expressions unless told to, and thats if they can be evaluated. | ||
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Kinky
United States4126 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11554 Posts
but still an awesome tool | ||
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onihunter
United States515 Posts
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blue_arrow
1971 Posts
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
No, you are wrong. Question: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Answer: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. | ||
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caelym
United States6421 Posts
teamliquid is based in dallas on a private home server? i always though it was based somewhere in europe (more specifically, netherlands). | ||
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