wolframalpha?, has anyone seen it? Options

[confactor]

I'm not sure if you guys know about this site, but Its amazing and you should definitely
check it out. Its called http://www.wolframalpha.com/
you can go there and calculate a whole bunch of cool stuff.
I was amazed that it can find integrals and differentials, but it can be used
for finding less trivial information such as the distance between cities as well.
What do you think?

[Ixith]

funny you should post this up today cause earlier one of my in real life friends linked me to this on facebook. lol Rather funny.

I was actually fairly impressed with it. Did some huge random multiplying calculation thing like 749194719*61884919309113 and gave the exact answer, then gave the answer in it's word form, and other things. Not to mention I also did lots of random trivial things on it. lol

[jadems]

YESYESYES. It was on Attack of the Show.

In their searh engine type in

"66MPH"

and

"To be or not to be"

[KingByng]

My immediate reaction: Oh my God this is epic!

It knows the exact distance (in both kilometres and miles) between my current town of residence and my hometown, two obscure places. It has them on a map of North America. It has their populations. It has their elevations. It has the time it would take to fly between them on a direct flight path (at 550 mph/ 890 km/h). It has the time of both places (though they are in the same time zone).

And it only took a few seconds to compute.

[Nintyuk]

Yes but its a usa only thing, you try and use it to find any thing about the county's of the UK let alone the towns and city's

[KingByng]

Not just a USA thing, it knows a lot about the greatest nation in existence (Canada).

But evidently it is still a work in progress.

[KingByng]

Watch this to know how terrifying it really is.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/int...lframalpha.html

[Roani52]

Yeah, heard of it. It rocks. It's really helpful with my math homework.
I can easily check my answers (ie: http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=int+xln%5E3%28x%29+dx then click show steps... Thats almost litterally what I wrote in my math work-book, wolframalpha rocks )



Lol: http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=where+is+god

[Aztek985]

Ha, wish I had this when I was border line failing math back in high school.

[confactor]

HA! you had high school calculus?
Lucky, or should I say UNLUCKY!

[Roani52]

I only use WA to check my answers... The rest just by hand (which is easy enough...)

[2kool4u526]

Look up
"What is the purpose of the universe?"

[Roani52]

"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."

Or did you mean:
"The answer to life, the universe, and everything"
?

[jadems]

42!

That was the other one!