wildweasel Posted May 16, 2009 Evidently they're swamped with connections at the moment. I wanted to ask them if they knew where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted May 16, 2009 I find it interesting that it will actually plot graphs for you. I tried with a simple y = mx + b equation and got the images for it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted May 16, 2009 It's easy to be disappointed by it, but if you take the time to figure out how it tends to parse your questions you can get a lot of mileage out of this first preview. I'm having lots of fun with it, some of the things people has tried in the last few hours but couldn't get an answer actually work now! 0 Share this post Link to post
exp(x) Posted May 16, 2009 Looks like there's no point in buying Mathematica. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted May 16, 2009 exp(x) said:Looks like there's no point in buying Mathematica. As long as it doesn't take more than a few seconds to compute your result, no. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted May 16, 2009 Well, that was predictable. Also, Wolfram|Alpha confirms: 0.999... = 1 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted May 16, 2009 Apparently it can find God, too. EDIT: It gets this right, too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Raziel Anarki Posted May 17, 2009 skynet is upon us! :D so apparently göd has taken on a pair of umlauts, and camouflages himself as a small city here in hungary. how devious :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted May 17, 2009 fraggle said:Also, Wolfram|Alpha confirms: 0.999... = 1 Surely a bug in the alpha. Should be fixed by the next version. 0 Share this post Link to post
wildweasel Posted May 17, 2009 Hm, nope, now that I've had the chance to actually use this without getting the "I'm sorry, Dave" error...Wolfram|Alpha cannot tell me where Carmen Sandiego is. I shall take my investigation elsewhere. =P 0 Share this post Link to post
Super Jamie Posted May 19, 2009 Put in a basic food, your name, or where you live and you get some cool things. It can also prove I am getting get fatter as I get older :P It can tell me the volume of all oceans, but not the volume of a specific ocean. I've seen alot of this info in different places before, but never gathered all together. Teething problems and lack of info aside, I can see how this would be a massively useful tool. The examples are amazing. Finally, someone has made a useful search tool which Google hasn't! 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted May 19, 2009 Super Jamie said:It can tell me the volume of all oceans, but not the volume of a specific ocean. Uhmm, how could it? It depends on definitions of what an ocean is and most of the time on the Moon's position. 0 Share this post Link to post
Super Jamie Posted May 19, 2009 Because the oceans are separate entities, proven by the fact it can give areas of separate oceans. Even a varying number for volume based on tide would pass, in fact that would be even better. Technically, the water cycle (and global warming if you're a crazy tinfoil hat ranter) would mess up a figure for volume of all oceans, but it manages to represent that, why not volumes of ocean areas individually? 0 Share this post Link to post
Udderdude Posted May 19, 2009 I asked it "How do I shot web?" and it didn't have an answer. I can't begin to express my dissapointment. 0 Share this post Link to post
Super Jamie Posted May 19, 2009 Yeah, it doesn't have an answer for this either. 0 Share this post Link to post