Wolfram|Alpha Answer Engine

Dragon · **Posted:** December 8th, 2009, 1:04 pm

Anyone use this site? Basically, it is a search database full of tons of information from historical facts, to mathematical equations, to geography. There are unbelievable amounts of information you can gather such as, conversions of units, nutritional facts, comparisons of demographics statistics, where the ISS currently is, when and where the next eclipse will be, etc. Give it a try.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Introduction video:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/ ... ingwolframalpha.html

Adbot · **Posted:** December 8th, 2009, 1:04 pm

Aquw VettelS 776 · **Posted:** December 8th, 2009, 3:41 pm

Yes I use it all the time. It's my default search engine (in address bar). As a guess, I'd say I look thins up 2-5 times a day on average.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** December 8th, 2009, 3:44 pm

Lol clever i put in "my name" and it gave me a response.

All in all though, flash aside most of the **** it churns out you can probably find just as easily via google and that's got a URL that I'll remember more easily.

Apparently theres 151k or so Jons in America which seems extremely low for a population of 300million+

Wonder how accurate it is.

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

It's been out for quite some time at this point. It's not too helpful for normal queries, but it's awesome once you start doing mathematics and science. For example, when I had to draw all of the possible configurations for a given chemical compound, it would draw and give information for all 24 or whatever different structures.

There's a ton of easter eggs with it, including asking 'where do babies come from', 'what is the meaning of life', and other semi-common basic questions.

power crazy · **Posted:** December 8th, 2009, 10:24 pm

Eh... It's pretty cool and all but using this as your default search engine isn't very smart. Usually when you are searching you look for qualatative data while this shows basically just qualatative data that o find to be incredibly redundant redundant.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** December 10th, 2009, 2:43 pm

It's alright. Not sure what common use I'd have for it though.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 10th, 2009, 2:43 pm

Secretcode6 · **Posted:** December 12th, 2009, 10:40 am

It's pretty fun to find it's answers to different answers.I really like the built in domain search.

Al3X · **Posted:** December 14th, 2009, 2:40 pm

It's a pretty cool site just to look up random statistics. Actually next time I write an essay I may use it. If the app weren't so expensive I'd get it for my iTouch (the one I'm getting for Christmas, yay for assuming).

ryan1 · **Posted:** December 24th, 2009, 10:35 am

CreepyPirate wrote:

Apparently theres 151k or so Jons in America which seems extremely low for a population of 300million+

It is also commonly spelled "John" in the US.

Anyway, I used the Wolfram Integrator to check my Calculus II homework sometimes, though the answers were sometimes given in a strange form I didn't recognize.