Wolfram / Alpha

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DCaD Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbia City, Indiana, USA Posts: 836 Good Answers: 96	Wolfram / Alpha 05/26/2010 8:55 PM
	To Friends and Associates ... Today, a friend passed me a link to a new (apparently) website, called Wolfram Alpha. I've only started to play with this, but it is quite remarkable ... just about everything for as many of the sciences I can remember ... and many I can't . I won't carry on further, but you should really check this out. http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Kind regards ... __________________ "Just when I had all the answers, they changed all the questions"
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Mikerho Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Moses Lake, WA, USA, Thulcandra - The Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) Posts: 4216 Good Answers: 194	#1 Re: Wolfram / Alpha 05/27/2010 12:29 AM
	Hi DCaD, I have been using the MathWorld/ScienceWorld site for about 2 years. You are right, this is pretty amazing. I typed in: y=2x^2+4x+4 and got this! Mike __________________ "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand
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dkwarner Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: Placerville, CA (38° 45N, 120° 47'W) Posts: 6215 Good Answers: 248	#2 Re: Wolfram / Alpha 05/28/2010 12:08 AM
	I tried it around a year ago, and got no answer to whatever question I was asking at the time. I suppose its time I gave them another chance... __________________ Teaching is a great experience, but there is no better teacher than experience.
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MoronicBumble Guru Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 570 Good Answers: 55	#3 Re: Wolfram / Alpha 05/28/2010 12:49 AM
	Oh great!!###%@*!! Now anyone* can be an engineer. I use to think I had an advantage because I knew arithmetic! Cool site. __________________ Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
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DCaD Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbia City, Indiana, USA Posts: 836 Good Answers: 96	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Wolfram / Alpha 05/28/2010 1:01 AM
	Fear not ... owning a wrench doesn't make one a mechanic ... it just creates more mistakes for the professionals to solve (my wife's most hated comment from me: "oh, I can fix that") __________________ "Just when I had all the answers, they changed all the questions"
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JBTardis Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida, USA Posts: 2129 Good Answers: 87	#5 Re: Wolfram / Alpha 05/28/2010 9:22 AM
	A friend of my wife's sent her a link to that site, knowing she would show it to me. We played and explored for quite awhile. Very cool....but for some reason I'm always a bit suspicious of making so much information too available....I'm not sure why. __________________ J B
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