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WTactualF? When has * ever been anything other than multiplication? Why would the resulting links all be discussing division?
I think Google search doesn't include the special symbols, so it's like searching "48 6".
Wolfram Alpha was a pet project of Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Mathematica. He had grand visions for it. And for the first few years, it seemed like he was doubling down on it.
But then he got bored and started tackling a bigger problem: his own solution to the "theory of everything" problem -- something that has eluded the world's best physicists for decades.
But he was confident that he could best them all. Because he created Mathematica.
The scientific community wasn't having it:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-critic...
"4 drinks in 3 hours at 64 kg"
At University pretty much everyone I know uses it for homework.
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My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since. I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.
You should search comments, rather than stories. It's very regularly referenced in HN comments, often for calculations, sometimes in other contexts. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
They put their "step-by-step" explanations behind a [login/pay]wall which made it significantly less useful. Out of sight, out of mind. It's still there
I think they've always been like that. Good thing is, they have a montly cost, but the mobile app you just buy once and it works forever. And it's not that expensive iirc.
I use it regularly. Sometimes it’s broken, and maybe nobody notices but me? :) Their natural language queries for things that I know they know about are amazing. Here are some that I have used recently. You really need to see these results to appreciate them. I wanted to know how tall my daughter might be. 8 year old female 55 lbs http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8%20year%20old%20female... I wanted to know the nu…
Also a frequent WA user. I use it for things I could calculate, but are much faster to just ask in plain text. How much that cloud instance really costs $0.03/hr * 1 month Bandwidth calculations for hosting providers 10 TB per month in Mbps
(day length of jupiter) * 80It did OK figuring the fake "temperature" of LHC beams that fusion people like to quote because they sound more impressive than GeV.