Coolest Website Ever! (Computational Knowledge Engine)

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[Daisyjane69]

You can put in just about any "how much" question and get an answer!

Just for fun (or nausea) I typed in:

U.S. Budget Deficit 2/1/07

(when the libs took over the purse strings)

Here's what I got:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=U.S.+Budget+Deficit+2%2F1%2F07

*Hint: 160.7 Billion*

[Daisyjane69]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=U.S.+Budget+Deficit+2%2F1%2F07

meh...sorry

[Glenn]

Welcome to the game!

[Daisyjane69]

You knew about that website????

I thought I found a cool new toy.

:(

heh

[Glenn]

You knew about that website????

It was a hot topic earlier this year or late last. Everyone wondered if it was a 'google killer'. It isn't, of course.

[quintr]

later

[Daisyjane69]

I should have known better than try to beat the FReepers to the link.

LOL

[Beowulf]

bookmarked. thank you.

[AFreeBird]

They even have a iPhone/iPad app. Works great

[Carl Vehse]

WolframAlpha still has some learning to do. I ask where 0bama was born and it said “Hawaii”.

[missnry]

WolframAlpha still has some learning to do. I ask where 0bama was born and it said “Hawaii”.

I asked it "what hospital was Barack Obama born in?" and it can't answer! Amazing legacy for the 'most transparent' one.

[nikos1121]

sorry

[Huebolt]

It's new to some of us. Thanks!

Wolfram = Tungsten = light bulb. What a name...

[edpc]

OK, so I asked it the obvious "how much" question and it provided the following answer....

A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. (According to the tongue twister, although the paper "The Ability of Woodchucks to Chuck Cellulose Fibers" by P.A. Paskevich and T.B. Shea in Annals of Improbable Research vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 4-9, July/August 1995, concluded that a woodchuck can chuck 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per day.)

[csvset]

I asked how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

It was stumped.

However, WikiAnswers says it came up with an answer of sorts.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?

[Daisyjane69]

My guess is that it depends on the tongue. *volume on*

http://instantrimshot.com/

LOL

[My hearts in London - Everett]

If you use Firefox, you can add it to your list of search engines. :~)

[litehaus]

Math, science -—The ‘WOLF’ is THE GUY/PLACE

[csvset]

Is this the woodchuck?

[all the best]

Thanks for bringing to my attention.

[Louis Foxwell]

I asked about the profit on a barrel of oil. It assumed profit referred to a movie and did not understand a barrel of oil. Worthless.

[freebird5850]

bflr