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Still, there are significant holes in the parsing engine - once you learn its quirks you can get around it, but it's a long way from natural. It can do, for exa
by flavor8 13y ago
Still, there are significant holes in the parsing engine - once you learn its quirks you can get around it, but it's a long way from natural. It can do, for example:
"estimated number of atoms in a liter of water" - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estimated+number+of+atoms+in+a+liter+of+water http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estimated+number+of+ato...
and
"volume of a cup of coffee" http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+a+cup+of+coffee http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+of+a+cup+of+coff...
but not:
"estimated number of atoms in a cup of coffee"
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estimated+number+of+atoms+in+a+cup+of+coffee http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estimated+number+of+ato...
What you're looking for is: "estimated number of atoms in 1 cup of water".
Similarly "distance to moon in terms of bill gates' height" does NOT work, while "distance to moon / bill gates' height" does work.
- MaulingMonkey 13y agoQuite true. Still, the same holds for Google as well - sometimes you need to avoid relevant keywords because of the junk they'll bring in, other times you need to add seemingly tangential keywords, and yet other times you need to resort to google's syntax -- quotation marks, +/- and site: prefixes. (alack, poor +, we hardly knew ye) Stumbling upon the right combination can take quite a bit of work until you've built up experience with both the search engine and the subject material's keywords.