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Hmm. Try this Google search: "integrate 1/log(x)". Not very useful, huh? Sorry, but Google and Wolfram Alpha are different beasts. Wolfram Alpha is aimed at a
by thras 17y ago
Hmm. Try this Google search: "integrate 1/log(x)". Not very useful, huh?
Sorry, but Google and Wolfram Alpha are different beasts. Wolfram Alpha is aimed at a much smaller audience than Google. That doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be just as important one day -- the number crunchers get everything useful done in this society, after all.
- asimjalis 17y agoAnother thing I noticed about Wolfram Alpha is that it knows almost nothing about fictional characters. "Who is Luke Skywalker?" produces nothing.
- thras 17y agoThat's the most poignant argument for WA that I've seen yet.
- zouhair 17y agoWho needs to do "integrate 1/log(x)" in a website?
- tokipin 17y agoi've been using it for plotting/calculations while learninating some subjects. i like it because the interface is elegant compared to say my TI-89 and even Mathematica with its ugly square brackets
- bbgm 17y agoor this one (the utility is questionable, but it's the kind of derived data that makes WA "computational") http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+India*population+of+USA%2Fpopulation+of+china^2# http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+India*p...
- tjmc 17y agoOn the other hand, try "4.7L/100km to mpg" in both. Alpha understands the question and reformats it nicely but then doesn't calculate the answer. Google just gives the answer.
- tokipin 17y agoit works if you match the ratio (i.e. 100km/4.7L : m/g) but it probably should understand that input and maybe have the result as blah^-1