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Wolfram Alpha also seems to bail out when a mathematical expression exceeds a certain complexity, which makes it fairly useless for the only thing I want to use
by fferen 15y ago
Wolfram Alpha also seems to bail out when a mathematical expression exceeds a certain complexity, which makes it fairly useless for the only thing I want to use it for - evaluating hairy integrals and other long expressions. Or worse, it just "interprets" it as a part of my original expression and calculates that, as if I just typed out the rest of it because I enjoy typing random symbols. It seems like such a waste to fire up Mathematica every time but I haven't found any comparable online tools.
I think W|A could have been a great tool for this kind of thing but instead it tried to cover every subject instead of doing one thing well.
- troyastorino 15y agoIf you just type in the expression as Mathematica code, doesn't Wolfram Alpha evaluate it just as Mathematica would?
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoYes, but it times out rather quickly. Mathematica is much more powerful. (For those interested: the relevant syntax is Integrate[x^2, x] or Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 1}] You can find more Mathematica at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...; searching the Mathematica docs is often easier than figuring out which textual query Wolfram|Alpha understands.)
- lemen 15y agoNo not always. I've tried several times, but W|A pipes the input first trough the natural language processor. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=DateListPlot[++WeatherData[{%22NewYork%22%2C+%22NewYork%22%2C+%22UnitedStates%22}%2C++++%22Temperature%22%2C+{{2012%2C+3%2C+29}%2C+{2012%2C+3%2C+30}%2C+All}]%2C+Joined+-%3E+True http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=DateListPlot[++WeatherD...]
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