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Re:Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost by parse_tree on Sunday October 18, 2009 @09:57PM (#889264)
With the exception of solving integrals, diff eqs, or other CAS things, is Wolfram Alpha particularly useful when you'd have google at your disposal? I would think no, but that's just my experience.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost by kwantam on Sunday October 18, 2009 @10:20PM (#889289)
Who is downvoting this comment!? It's a non-inflammatory, relatively accurate portrayal of Alpha. WA does some things well (sure, more than just CAS) but at the end of the day its cool factor far exceeds its useful factor for the vast majority of people---especially because of several problems with its UI that have been discussed at length in the past.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost by cturner on Monday October 19, 2009 @05:37AM (#889777)
I've been using wolfram alpha with this command a bit from work:

    what is my ip address
It works!
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost by omouse on Sunday October 18, 2009 @10:00PM (#889268)
Google is a search engine, Wolfram Alpha is a computation engine.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost by dantheman on Sunday October 18, 2009 @10:24PM (#889294)
But how often do people actually compute? The majority of all computer use is for information retrieval/display. If wolfram alpha had a spreadsheet interface then maybe people would use it, but once again right now there isn't that much that people compute.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost by parse_tree on Sunday October 18, 2009 @10:03PM (#889271)
No one said otherwise.
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