Posted by: admin in Web Sites on May 27, 2009
Wolfram Alpha is not really a search engine, its more than that its actually a computational Knowledge engine. For those of us who dont know what that is it basically means that its google if you gave google several doctorates in advanced astrophysics. Wolfram is designed to answer your questions and uses several advanced methods to break down your questions and provide you with a ton of statistical responses. Still dont get it?
Here's an example:
If you typed in your date of birth as
DOB 12/1/83
then you would get the following answer:
Assuming "dob" is referring to age
born on Thursday, December 1, 1983
Current age:
25 years 5 months 26 days
Unit conversions:
9303 days
223 274 hours
2.549 decades
8.038x10^8 seconds
25.46978 anomalistic years
25.4700104954 sidereal years
Comparison as time:
~~ 1.3 x turnover time of terrestrial organic plant matter (~~ 19 calendar years )
Typing in : life expectancy
would give you the statistics on life expectancy by country for the world with maps, stats and all.
There Goal as stated on the website is to "long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone."
The potential uses for wolfram are almost limitless and it can be great for help doing research or homework so go ahead give it a try and see what you get.