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Hmmm, my favorite inputs to Wolfram|Alpha are unit conversions. This thing just spews error messages. http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=5+gallons+%2F+12+fl+oz
by mekane8 13y ago
Hmmm, my favorite inputs to Wolfram|Alpha are unit conversions. This thing just spews error messages.
http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=5+gallons+%2F+12+fl+oz http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=5+gallons+%2F+12+fl+oz.
http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=how+many+calories+in+a+cubic+light+year+of+strawberries http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=how+many+calories+in+a+cu...
I wouldn't call it an "alternative" just yet. (And I'm an ex-W|A employee).
- dmd 13y agoJust out of curiosity, why use W|A for unit conversions vs. using Google's calculator for that?
- capnrefsmmat 13y agoBecause W|A can tell me that the caloric equivalent of the molasses spilled in the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 is 36 kilotons of TNT: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Calories+in+2300000+gallons+of+molasses%29+in+kilotons+of+TNT http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Calories+in+2300000+... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster So you can do unit conversions with all sorts of weird facts, like the nutritional content of molasses.
- jrpt 13y agoTry Encalc: http://www.encalc.com/documentation.php http://www.encalc.com/documentation.php